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.