One of my best buddies is a Quebecois. He took his family on a visit to France while en-route to Africa. He said that the French treated him like dirt because he spoke French with a Quebecois accent!
No kidding. There is a huge difference between Parisian French and Laurentian French. It's like saying people in Newfoundland and people in British Columbia are both speaking the same "English".
Now, that that takes snobbish to a whole new level-any time MrT5 was TDY for some training in Louisiana he had a great time because people in bars and restaurants treated him like kin and spoke to him in French when they saw the surname on his uniform, and he was able to converse with them-he said there is not too much difference between the Cajun and the Quebecois dialect-it is mostly the accent and words for items common in the particular region-but apparently, neither would be considered “proper” French in France...