Madam Mayor Valérie Plante,
Madam, you showed yourself to be visionary in wanting to give the Latin Quarter of Montreal this additional designation as a Francophonie district. Some disgruntled people spoke out against this initiative, including the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal, which made us hear its usual victim-speak.
Thanks to you, tourists who come to Montreal will be surprised to find a “French Quarter” there, just like in New Orleans. Quebec with its metropolis will have fulfilled its destiny when it becomes a Northern Louisiana in which only the facade of what it will have been will remain. Didn’t you show us the way to follow, some time ago, by giving a speech all in English to certain delegates gathered here?
We must accept this fate, as this Ontario chain of food stores does in one of its branches, located on Avenue du Parc in Montreal, and as I should have done, being there looking for a certain product, after speaking, one after the other, to three of his clerks, who quite naturally replied “ English “, not even ” English please », to my questions. You don’t have to worry about old-fashioned people like the undersigned.
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