[ laughter ] patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect, an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. patrick: but every bureaucracy produces byproducts of stupidity. and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. anthony: the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking québécois like second-class crap for much of history. so, i get it. i d be pissed, too. i d want my own thing. and when i got it, i d want to make sure there s no backsliding to the bad old days. patrick: when the parti québécois, the first, uh, sovereignist party to be elected, was elected in 1976, it didn t come out of a vacuum. it came out from a couple of decades of awakening and struggle. anthony: 50 years from now, will people be still speaking patrick: french. anthony: predominantly
my last name is bourdain. i lean french, hard. i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. patrick: you don t think it s preposterous? anthony: i do not think it s preposterous. but here we have a situation. [ laughter ] patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect, an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. patrick: but every bureaucracy produces byproducts of stupidity. and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. anthony: the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking québécois like second-class crap for much of history. so, i get it. i d be pissed, too. i d want my own thing. and when i got it, i d want to make sure there s no backsliding to the bad old days. patrick: when the parti québécois, the first, uh, sovereignist party to be elected, was ele
patrick: you don t think it s preposterous? anthony: i do not think it s preposterous. but here we have a situation. [ laughter ] patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect, an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. patrick: but every bureaucracy produces byproducts of stupidity. and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. anthony: the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking québécois like second-class crap for much of history. so, i get it. i d be pissed, too. i d want my own thing. and when i got it, i d want to make sure there s no backsliding to the bad old days. patrick: when the parti québécois, the first, uh, sovereignist party to be elected, was elected in 1976, it didn t come out of a vacuum. it came out from a couple of decades of awakening a
preposterous. but here we have a situation. [ laughter ] patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect, an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. patrick: but every bureaucracy produces byproducts of stupidity. and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. anthony: the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking québécois like second-class crap for much of history. so, i get it. i d be pissed, too. i d want my own thing. and when i got it, i d want to make sure there s no backsliding to the bad old days. patrick: when the parti québécois, the first, uh, sovereignist party to be elected, was elected in 1976, it didn t come out of a vacuum. it came out from a couple of decades of awakening and struggle. anthony: 50 years from now, will people be still speaking
the language laws. patrick: you don t think it s preposterous? anthony: i do not think it s preposterous. but here we have a situation. [ laughter ] patrick: it is stupid. uh, i agree with you completely that this this province, 40 years ago, was in some respect, an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. anthony: now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. patrick: but every bureaucracy produces byproducts of stupidity. and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. anthony: the anglo-canadians treated french-speaking québécois like second-class crap for much of history. so, i get it. i d be pissed, too. i d want my own thing. and when i got it, i d want to make sure there s no backsliding to the bad old days. patrick: when the parti québécois, the first, uh, sovereignist party to be elected, was elected in 1976, it didn t come out of a vacuum. it came out from a couple of dec