this is -- >> patrick: okay, stop apologizing, okay? [ laughter ] >> anthony: don't get me wrong. 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