my last name is bourdain. i lean french. hard. >> i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think it's preposterous? >> i do not think it's preposterous. but i hear we have a situation -- >> it is stupid. i agree with you completely that this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but every bureaucracy produces by-products of stupidity. and you know what? it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking quebecois like second-class crap for much of history. so i get it. i'd be pissed too. i'd want my own thing and when i got it i'd want to make sure there's no backsliding to the bad old days. >> when the first sovereignist party to be elected was elected in 1976, it didn't come out of a vacuum.