Idiot STM Worker Assaults Passenger

Yes, this is isolated. I mean, if the STM had more of these boobs then there would be a problem. Mind you, they all seem to come out of the shed when the PQ are in power.

What an awful story. The thing is, IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. Politics and your job should never mix. Ever.

I've grown tired of the Ontario comparison. I'm pretty sure they don't have the same chip on their shoulders like we have here about language.

Bottom line is this is Quebec and we should hold ourselves to a higher standard not because of what others think but because we want to.

Two comments:

This guy doesn't get it:

"Ce que tu dis est ridicule, mais bon... Montréal a une meilleure réputation que Toronto sur la scène internationale, on est dans le top 10 de pleins de palmares de ''10 best city for''. C'est complètement nul de dire n'importe quoi juste pour les ''Like''.

Les employés des transport en communs te parlent en français en Ontario? Non, alors ils n'ont pas à parler anglais ici."

Stop over rating yourself. Montreal isn't that respected. And that last line misses the point entirely. At worst, this boob is advocating two wrongs make a right.

But I don't know of any cases in Ontario where public servants accost people for speaking another language other than English. There are tourists who use the STM for the love of God.

Its myopic bull shit on his part. He's setting up strawmen to implicitly justify this insane behavior.

This guy gets it:

J'ai honte d'être Québécois parfois. La question linguistique est importante mais jamais au détriment de notre société, voyons donc! This is repugnant, pure and simple. Behaviour like this forced me out of Quebec, I left - I live in Ontario now. And while it's no picnic here either, at least I'm not ashamed to live here (well, aside from the Leafs...). I don't think language was the only factor here, race certainly played a role - as it often does with linguistic issues unfortunately. How can frontline employees NOT be bilingual, they deal with tourists day in and day out! This is why Montréal has such a crappy reputation on the world stage... we badger and hate our own citizens, nevermind what we do to tourists!

This is the Quebec I know - or want to know.