stake. so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecois, but you have to get to the pressing matter of the day -- pasta-gate. >> pasta-gate. what do you want to know about pasta-gate? >> 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 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 b 0ourdain, i lean french, hard. i'm normally sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think it's preposterous? >> i don't think think it is -- >> it's stupid, i agree with you completely this province 40 years ago was in some respects an english city, so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff.