Everyone talks about francization when thinking about the service offered or the language of communication, but who cares about the social names or the names of festivals or events that disfigure Montreal in particular and Quebec in general?
Truce of provincial nonsense.
Let Dominique “English” wonder if the English language is threatened.
Let’s focus instead on the lies, not of Ulysses, but of the City of Montreal, with its bilingual mayor.
The Association of Development Societies has just unveiled its vague measures to ensure that Montreal speaks French.
Its general manager, Billy Walsh, who seems like a good guy to me, presented a pilot project where teachers affiliated with the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal will travel to participating businesses to instruct workers in the language of Molière directly in the field.
How not to applaud such an initiative?
This is how Saint-Denis, Saint-Laurent, Côte-des-Neiges and Wellington streets will be targeted first.
- Listen to the Gilles Proulx and Richard Martineau meeting broadcast live every day at 10:45 a.m. via QUB-radio :
Plethora
Already, it’s worrying to know that rue Saint-Denis needs “francization”…
Then, who will clean up the plethora of names chosen by our colonized who call their businesses the Church Street Pub (because it is located on Church Avenue), Verdun Beach or Sweet Lee’s?
In Hochelaga, on Ontario Street, there is the Blind Pig bar, not far from Gerry’s Delicatessen restaurant.
You can get something to eat at the Pick-Up which is just in front of the Lazy shop.
Those who have a car can have it repaired at one of the many Bumper to Bumper.
- Listen to the Gilles Proulx and Richard Martineau meeting broadcast live every day at 10:45 a.m. via QUB-radio :
Mentality
Gone are the days when an American retailer like Staples had the decency and intelligence to change its name here to Staples.
And these foreign social reasons are not the crux of the problem either: they are good little Quebecers who want to be ” universal who choose English names…
Quietly, we return to the face of Montreal in the 1950s…
It is this mentality that should be fought, but that we avoid naming.