AFAIK the law does not say you must have only French on the label, only that the French content must equal the content in the other language. A pain for small manufacturers in other countruies, but again, after surviving a few hundred years of attempts to stamp out the language, people feel strongly about encroachment by other cultures. Perhaps not admirable but understandable, and on the whole I agree with this law.
There probably is a bias against anglophones in the PQ. There are biases against francophones elsewhere. As I said earlier, it's a divided country.
It did not sound as though you were planning to withdraw the remark. Fine then, I merely think a little less of you. My rationale: I google "ethnic cleansing" and I find references to rape and genocide. This is not at all on the same scale as a couple of bigoted politicians.
Dana
>But he French only law goes directly against the constitution. Yes the PQ
>never found any problem opting out while still using the same provisions of
>the constitution when it suited their purpose.
>
>I did a very cursory google search on the topic. Quite a few PQ members
>supported Parizeau and Michaud. The PQ vote on sanctioning him barely
>passed.
>
>As for the suggested killings and forced removal, there have been quite a
>few incidents in which synagogs and Jewish cemetaries have been desecrated,
>aside from the typical anti-semetism stuff, in at least one of the
>cemetaries the perps also spray painted pro separatiste statements.
>
>I will not withdraw what I said. The facts support it. There is a strong
>bias in the PQ against non-francophones.
>
>larry
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