actually find it pleasurable, like, well, these two gentlemen. do you like the cold? i mean, by you, i mean the quebecois. it cleans the streets of ebola. the cold? yeah, the frigid cold keeps the riffraff out of the city, for sure. fred morin, dave mcmillen, restauranteur, chefs at the legendary joe beef, bon vivant, recanteour, historians of their beloved great white north, princes of hospitality. and what do men like this do for fun when the rivers turn to ice 3 feet thick, when testicles shrink and most of us scurry for warmth and shelter? if they were like so many other canadians, they would go ice fishing on the st. lawrence river. the cabin fever induces in the quebecueo family, because we are confined perhaps to spend so
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 legas meets me to understand what many feel is at stake. so i was going to talk about the whole history of french quebecois, but i have to get to the pressing matter of the day, pastagate. pastagate, what do you want to know about that? 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 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
no doubt about it. no doubt about it. french first is something most would agree with. how far and how rigorously you want to go with that? well do you think there was ever any possibility or real majority or plurality of quebecois that would have voted in separate nation status? in english, you guys say timing is everything. timing was never better in the period 1990, 91, 92. because, in 95 this country came inches one being broken up. do you think it will ever happen? in the history of the world? i don t know, but i know one thing, everyone who says separatism is dead in this country and this province is a fool. no matter how you feel about quebec as either separate from or as an essential part of greater canada, any reasonable person loves this place. correct me if i m wrong, we wilensky s is famous for the sandwich, the special?
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