What I find most interesting is Mr Rousseau's comment that you could perfectly live and work for 14 years in Montréal - without speaking any words in french.
That's true for any big city around the world. those who call for this to be impossible are asking for Montréal to lose its role as an international city.
Somehow when reading anglo medias here, I was under the impression that Quebec's anglos were oppressed, persecuted, could not be served in english and what not. Some even used words like "ethnic cleansing".
We all knew this rhetoric was all pure BS. But anglo medias just kept repeating it.
Quebec bashing sells newspapers / readership it seems.
yeah because its just the anglo media with the OTT BS, right? Not like Lagacé in La Presse (!) called him a Rhodesian today and said AC is Speak White airlines. Somehow, not learning French in Montreal is comparable to one of the worst excesses of colonialism.
This goes both ways. Some Anglos talk about ethnic cleansing and some francos consider themselves victims of colonialism.
A shame because there are genuine issues with French language representation in Canada. But by pulling this kind of stunt, the blowhards make it easy to paint the whole issue as an overreaction of some sulking provincialists.
This story is an unnecessary own goal by AC. If their CEO is that bad at PR he should not be in an outward facing role.