I hear that Fabricville was told to change its internal inventory software by the OLF. The owners were flabbergasted left to wonder how the heck that 'protects' a language since it's, well, internal and generally based on a universal software all businesses across the world use.
But this is Quebec and in Quebec punitive measures are the best path to a healthy language and culture.
I'm only guessing here but piss them off enough and they'll move their operations elsewhere.
A friend of mine owns a successful organic mattress company. Out of principle he moved his sales and marketing office to Florida. I know of three businesses mulling over their options just like I am.
The PQ, with the help of the lambs in the CAQ, have officially over reached.
Between the OLF, Bill 14, major corporations like Wal-Mart and Costco taking the government to court for its loose and excessive interpretation of the language laws (Target will be, erm, targeted I'm sure), the Quebec Soccer Federations decision to ban turbans on the soccer field (despite appeals from both the CSA and FIFA to reconsider its position) and its record at the UN's Human Rights Commission, Quebec officially, in my view, is a black mark on the Canadian Confederation. How Ottawa remains silent with the antics of these buffoons is beyond me. Cut our transfer payments already.
We're an abject failure and disgrace when it comes to civil liberties. How weak is the French language in the minds of the PQ nationalists to compel them to go on such a self-destructive crusade?
Quebec is nowhere near ready for the 21st century. With the type of immigration we permit, we will reap what we sow.
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