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NP: Why Quebec grocer would think she could ban English
MONTREAL – Battling bad publicity generated Thursday by news that employees at one of its supermarkets in Quebec are prohibited from speaking English, Sobeys chief executive officer Marc Poulin called the store’s actions “unacceptable” and “totally unexplainable.”
In truth, it is no mystery why a Quebec grocer would think she had the right to dictate what language her workers spoke, even in their free time. She need only take her cue from the state, which routinely sends the message that French must prevail from the schoolyard to the boardroom.
In 2011, Quebec’s largest school board, the Commission scolaire de Montréal, announced plans to make its schools French-only zones.
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