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.
thus began a gradual but steady persecution of all things french. the quebecois have struggled mightily to hang on to their french heritage and language. the issue of seceding entirely, a notion that persists to some extent even today. journalist patrick legasse meets 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.
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 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.
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
of quebec city in the early 16th century, but succumbed to the military might of great britain in the mid 18th. thus began a gradual but steady persecution of all things french. the quebecois have struggled mightily to hang on to their french heritage and language. the issue of seceding entirely, a notion that persists to some extent even today. journalist patrick meets me at m sur masson, to understand what many feel is at stake. so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecoi siismt, but i have to get to the pressing matter of the day pasta-gate. what do you want to know? 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