While anglophones see Bonjour-Hi as a polite way for employees to gauge a customer’s language preference, many francophones find it dismissive, seeing it as a symbol of disrespect for Quebec’s ...
Or more accurately, she didn’t proactively speak the more common untruth about the French language in Quebec — namely, that it is mortally imperilled, and that “Louisianisation” is at hand.
Celebrated local paper The Victory stopped publishing in the ’80s. Under Quebec’s latest French language protection law, Bill 96, the city’s own website is no longer allowed to post any ...