Quebec's language police are pushing for criminal penalties against a bar which committed the unforgivable sin of displaying some vintage posters which had (horror of horrors!) English on them: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/02/14/qc-olf-0214.html.
This is the type of thing which drives me to distraction. In any other area of the West, it would be considered to be unacceptable and illegal to discriminate against a person or business based solely on their language, but in Canada in general and Quebec in particular, it's A-Ok.
Even though I have family (as well as some friends) who still live there, I have to wonder why in the world ANYONE whose first language is English w0uld stay in the province. How can you accept legally recognized second-class status?
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