http://www.fep.umontreal.ca/langues/

and by the way: "I’m tired of it! you don’t hear me slagging off a francophone for his lazy, blatant bastardization of one of the romance languages."

thanks for worrying so much about the quality of the french francophones speak in Quebec. Try to focus a bit more on yours, and everything will be fine.

And by the way, we're supposed to be learning english in high school. By Sec 5, everybody is supposed to be speaking decent, if not basic, english. Just like my buddies from Windsor, Ontario, which is a few hours *further* than Toronto, speak broken french, but at least understand me.

I find it rather insulting than anglos should be alienated because they speak english *IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY*. Yes, I said it, they won the war, they own our asses, and our tongues as well. We should consider ourselves lucky to be still talking french at all.

I had only thought about the message I received as an anglo:
"your language doesn't count and you suck"

Obviously these posters serve no one.

I think the money that they put into this campaign would actually serve the French language if they had spent it on French language courses. It's because of the federal second language summer bursary program (now called "explore": http://www.jexplore.ca/english/program.html)
that I am now French speaking and I work mostly in French. More support should go to programs like these and they should forget these posters which only fan the flames of hurt on either side of the language debate.

And yes there are still English areas within Montreal, as they have been for several hundred years. These areas were built by anglophones, have anglophone infrastructre i.e. schools, libraries, cultural centers, hospitals, churches, synagogues, etc..so what's the surprise? Do you really need every corner of Quebec to be serviced in French? Montreal has always been bilingual, and should remain so

It's like if they put up similar
stickers in Westmount saying,
"We Serve White People Here."

Completely unnecessary.
But I kind of understand.
See, they have to put
Anglos in their place.

http://www.psagency-agencefp.gc.ca/tou/olslo-eng.asp

And many people find it perfectly normal that they are not to be served in french whenever they go in a store.

Right. And my point is there are two ways to deal with those who don't respect the law. OQLF inspectors and fines, or a 3 cent sticker that tells me I won't have to get into a fight and ruin my day by going into a store.

Oh... I get it. Your employer is going to have to find another way of filling 20% of it's paper if it can't do the angry-shopkeeper-harassed-by the-Language-police story anymore...

However, if someone is downright rude to you, then of course, get even by any legal means necessary.

Now if you consider the political situation in Québec a business man would be a poor business man if he didn't put his bottom line ahead of his convictions. Someone walks in, you greet him in Swahili if you can. It just makes good business sense. Running a business isn't about politics. And you don't insult your patrons by refusing to speak to them in their language nor do you post signs in the window like this ridiculous campaign that sort of reminds me of the segregated south.

I never said that. The law gives you every right to "rock the boat" when you are denied service in French.

"you don’t want stronger language laws"

Well, I don't, but that has nothing to do with this. This isn't a law, it's a sticker.

"you don’t like Francophones exercising their right not to give money to businesses who don’t respect Francophones."

Again, I never said this. In fact, I believe this is the way this should be done.

"So my conclusion is that you believe that we should just speak the language we are told to speak in stores, right?"

Your conclusion is based on faulty assumptions. Again, the entire point of this post is that the law already requires service in French. A sticker in the window will make no difference.

"this is a case of something Francophones want and need that does not takie anything away from Anglophones in any way shape or form..."

It takes away my tax money. If they got this sponsored by a company or made it pay for itself somehow I wouldn't give a rat's ass.

Ça veut dire que la langue du commerce ne doit pas necessairement être en français. La service à la clientèle doit être disponible en français même pour des petits commerces.

So my conclusion is that you believe that we should just speak the language we are told to speak in stores, right?

Just like your dot-Qc campaign, Fagstein, this is a case of something Francophones want and need that does not takie anything away from Anglophones in any way shape or form. The only reason you have to oppose it is pettiness and spite.