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'm normally sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think it's preposterous? >> i do not think it is preposterous, but here 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 french. french first in all things. >> but ever bureaucracy produces by temperature products of stupidity, and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated quebecois like second-class crap for much of history, so i get it. i'd be pissed, too. i would want my own thing, and when i got it, i would want to