The Marvel that is L'Office de la Langue Francaise'

Did you know that here in the the Province of Quebec there exists (and I am not making any of this up) a small bandit bureaucracy called L'Office de la langue Francaise? Quebec is filled with contradictions and this is one of them as the operate in a democracy in a spiritually anti-democratic manner.

What the hell is this you ask? Well, they are self-appointed protectors of a threatened species known as the Quebecois (whom if you remove their tuques and accents could swear they are Americans). They are funded, I think, by the government, and they basically hound and harass hard working, taxpaying, peaceful citizens that actually contribute to the society at large who happen to have some English words on their shops.

You see, English is a cancer to Quebec nationalists who liken themselves to Catalonians and other 'oppressed' peoples. These wimps move about like dirty little wretched dwarfs armed with government legislation and rulers (as in centimetre rulers. They use this to measure the size of English lettering) passing out fines. Believe it or not, if one chooses to ignore this they can find themselves in jail for having an English sign. Spanish is ok. But spit on English.

I remember, on a side note, when Quebec 'thinkers' and 'intellectuals' swooned over the introduction of an archaic nationalist law that eroded individual liberties for all under the guise of protecting the will of the majority. I was a young lad and could not help but see skeletons cheer, in their ignorant magnificence - a law that smelled like it belonged in an era long since passed. From that point on my perception of Quebec politics as being out of step and regressive never changed. Its behaviour continues to baffle albeit in more refined tones. Quebec is not an innovator in philosophical existence. It is a model on what can go wrong.

There's a gradual process of weeding out any remnants of the English fact in Quebec. For this they applaud. They have done all their justifying for such causes. They will get their province. But at what cost? For an oppressed people they sure know how to dump a load of it on others. Are they any better than their former English masters?

To be fair, I am not painting all Quebecers this way. This is an attack an our political and intellectual masters who lag behind the true will of this population. They are closer to '1984' than they think.

Overwhelmingly, most level-headed Quebecers would be aghast at such an organization behaving this way in their names. Alas, the joke may be on the nationalists as a new breed of Quebecers usher in. Confident, bold and intelligent, they may yet prove to be, ironically, the anvil that crushes the 19th century romantic dinosaurs known as L'Office de la langue Francaise.

Perhaps one day we will read about them and say 'how could we have let such a group exist? Were we that petty and insecure?"