4 kids in a tahoe, this is jalopnik, just get the minivan.

Every time people get pissy at Clarkson/May/Hammond about the crap they pull in other countries, especially the deep south incident on Top Gear back in the day, it reminds me of Candy in Canadian Bacon....thanks for bringin this up!

Oh please.

My family were Anglos who said “Ok, fuck you then” and left Quebec for greener pastures in Alberta. I still wish I had grown up in Montreal than boring-ass Calgary. But the late 70's were brutal for English speakers in Quebec.

I said I spent time in Montreal recently and in many instances the person serving us didn’t speak English, and I cited as an example a McDonald’s drive through in Dorion. December 23, 11 am. Drive through. Girl on the other end of the speaker couldn’t understand English. That’s it. I switched to French and ordered…

Didn’t I mention I spoke French? Clearly comprehension isn’t your strong suit. My point was, and is, that people in the service industry very close to the major city in the province, should speak English. There’s this crazy concept called tourism, fucktard

Are you responding to me? I go to Quebec regularly and enjoy Francophone Canada. I don’t disagree that they have regional slang. I am just saying that the unique sound of the French that the majority of Quebecois speak is related to a dead regional French accent.

My French-American wife and I travel to Quebec a few times a year. She plays dumb and only speaks English until someone slips up and talks bad about her in French. Then she goes off on them in full blown Parisian on them. It is fun to watch their jaws drop.

Just out of college traveling for business about 50mi outside Montreal with a local distributor. Went into a restaurant, menu in French. Not thinking I asked for a menu in english, distributor QUICKLY says some things in french to waitress and tells me to not speak to the wait staff, to go through him for the rest of…

My Winnipegian wife, who is from an anglophone family and went to French public schools, might disagree.

It’s not my fault that the Quebecois speak a weird regional dialect that doesn’t exist in France proper anymore.

Beelzeboot made him do it. Or maybe it was just Scott, that guy’s a dick.

Until you drive off the island.. I stopped at a McDonald’s to get breakfast in Dorion at Christmas time and no one spoke English. I switched to French but it sure was surreal being so close to Montreal. I lived in Montreal for 48 years, moved to the U.S. seven years ago. The city feels a bit different, almost an…

I was in NB Canada and everything was bilingual so I thought when I was in Montreal the following week, getting around would be no problem, then I discovered that Quebec is not bilingual with signage. To make matters worse, French-Canadians run French words together, so it was difficult for me to understand the…

Right, that’s exactly what I mean. Quebec isn’t self-sustaining by any means, and Canada would have a hard time surviving with a huge hole in it. So now we gotta have French on all the signs to prevent assured mutual destruction, except for when I cross over to the Quebec side.

“cater to the anglophone minoroty”? you mean to tax paying citizens? How bbenevolent!! Last time I checked there is no laws that make French signs and communication illegal in the rest of Canada. Your belief that the Quebec government treats its English speaking, tax paying, citizens better than how francophones are…

It’s from the film Canadian Bacon. A personal favourite as a Canadian living in the US.

Monty Python did it better:

Quebec requires that the rest of Canada accommodates French, but they don’t bother with English outside of the touristy parts. And some can be sour about it even in some of the touristy parts... my friend’s order for “Big Mac” got him a fish fillet.

I think that note might be illegal. It isn’t in both languages.