me for lunch at bistro m sur masson, to understand what many feel is at stake. >> so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecoisism, but i have to get to the pressing matter of the day -- pasta-gate. >> what do you want to know about pastagate? >> for those not up on current quebec politics, pasta-gate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french were in violation of french laws because they used the word "pasta," which is italian. >> this is -- okay. stop apologizing. okay? >> don't get me wrong. 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