Almost None english ADS In the Montreal PET Airport, why?

dumpthemonarchy

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I was in the Montreal airport the other day, and I saw zero ads in English except for one web page address. All the ads were in French. This Montreal airport is named Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport, a noted federalist. The airport is on federal land which means all the signs were in French and English.

Ads by RBC-the Royal Bank of Canada, Westjet, HSBC-the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, all had their ads in French only. I saw so no unilingual Engish ads.There ought to be some, many.

I saw an ad from the Israeli govt with a web page address, goisrael.ca No dual French allezisrael.ca or vaisrael.ca
But all their ad copy was in French.
 

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I was in the Montreal airport the other day, and I saw zero ads in English except for one web page address. All the ads were in French. This Montreal airport is named Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport, a noted federalist. The airport is on federal land which means all the signs were in French and English.

Ads by RBC-the Royal Bank of Canada, Westjet, HSBC-the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, all had their ads in French only. I saw so no unilingual Engish ads.There ought to be some, many.

I saw an ad from the Israeli govt with a web page address, goisrael.ca No dual French allezisrael.ca or vaisrael.ca
But all their ad copy was in French.

You sound shocked by this but really what your saying is normal.
Just ask yourself two question:
-How many French ads did you see in your home airport?
-How many English ads would you see in France?
 
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Kreskin

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I may have missed the memo but isn't there a law in Quebec requiring french-only signs?
 

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You sound shocked by this but really what your saying is normal.
Just ask yourself two question:
-How many French ads did you see in your home airport?
-How many English ads would you see in France?

Actually in international airports you will see many ads in English. It is the world's lingua franca after all. I was actually quite surprised to see the huge number of English language ads in the European countries I visited on a recent overseas trip. Apparently it is only Quebec that seems out of touch with this situation.
 

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Well DTM, given Quebec's well known official truculence about language, and Bill 101, what would you expect? I've been at tourist spots in Quebec that fly the Quebec flag and the U.S. flag, but not the Canadian flag. I'm not suggesting I think it's right, because I don't, but it IS predictable. I also think separatist Quebecers don't recognize a good thing when they see it, I think Douglas Fullerton was right to call separatism the dangerous delusion in his book of that name, but that's another subject.
 

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Federalists are cowards. If Eaton's in the 1960s had stood up to Quebec's language laws, what would the Quebec govt done? Put the executives them in jail? Not likely. Corporate federalists are the worst cowards. They just left and went to Toronto.

The title of this thread has poor grammar, but it seems impossible to fix.
 

Dexter Sinister

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The title of this thread has poor grammar, but it seems impossible to fix.
Well, you could probably fix the grammar in the thread title with a little help from a mod, but really I think you're promoting a storm in a teacup. What you're focusing on here is just the superficial trivialities of the issue of Quebec separatism, the issue is much deeper than the language on signage.
 

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Well, you could probably fix the grammar in the thread title with a little help from a mod, but really I think you're promoting a storm in a teacup. What you're focusing on here is just the superficial trivialities of the issue of Quebec separatism, the issue is much deeper than the language on signage.

If it is no big deal, then why aren't there uniligual English ads in Quebec? They could just shrug it off. Quebec is all about language, who gets to put what where.
 

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I wonder why the guy who sued Air Canada didn't have a problem with this?

Ads on a wall don't speak. He's an interactive guy I suppose. Or maybe he can't read. Or maybe he's upset that as long as the Montreal Canadiens have a French language coach, and he like all Quebecers wants the Habs to have a French language coach no matter what, they will never win the Stanley Cup. Or maybe he's upset that Quebec can't separate because his standard of living would drop too much.
 

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Ads on a wall don't speak. He's an interactive guy I suppose. Or maybe he can't read. Or maybe he's upset that as long as the Montreal Canadiens have a French language coach, and he like all Quebecers wants the Habs to have a French language coach no matter what, they will never win the Stanley Cup. Or maybe he's upset that Quebec can't separate because his standard of living would drop too much.

I guess it could be any of those reasons. All I know is that he is a tool.
 

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Actually in international airports you will see many ads in English. It is the world's lingua franca after all. I was actually quite surprised to see the huge number of English language ads in the European countries I visited on a recent overseas trip. Apparently it is only Quebec that seems out of touch with this situation.



Do them a favor, and never set foot in Quebec.
I'm sure they wont cry a drop over it lol.

Like the French from France
They hate your annoying little entitled English mentality anyways
 

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Is the big hoknlin' sign for Emeril Lagasse's little dinner in English at YYZ? I've yet to met an English guy name Emeril. Is Montana English? Damn they make good ribs and meatloaf for foreigners.

First impressions are lasting impressions.
 
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I've been at tourist spots in Quebec that fly the Quebec flag and the U.S. flag, but not the Canadian flag. .

To them English Canada Sounds looks and smell's the same then American's.
Culturally they are absolutely right.

Quebec is all about having there own Culture.
Last Summer When I visited Montreal for the first time. I realized how shallow English Canada really is.

It has no real strong identity. We might as well be part of the USA.
To be honest. Culturally we always have been.
 

petros

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If I want to eat I can choose Emerils, Montans's, Olive Garden etc when eat at an airport. How many of those names are English? Even British Airways doesn't serve f 'n chips.

I'm only 43 and have to reminisce about the " good old days" when I could get a t-bone medium well served on a real china with actual cutlery?

These days i'm tickled pink to have Dad's cookies and milk from a real cow,.