Monday, March 1, 2010

Sleep Country Demo a Big Fizzle

What if you throw a demonstration and nobody cares?
French language militants found out when they demonstrated in front of Sleep Country Canada in Hull on Saturday. The call to arms across two giant Quebec unions and three or four nationalist organizations triggered an avalanche of support that some estimated at close to one hundred people. Sigh......

The sad parade of losers chanting slogans that absolutely nobody listened to,  was tragicomical, the few customers that were around whizzed right by them, in and out of the store.. 

Most people were at home watching fellow Quebeckers win three gold skating medals at the Olympics, while the demonstration was on!
I wonder if the demonstrators gave a cheer when they found out the news?

Jean-Paul Perreault, leader of the organizing Imperatif Francais told Ottawa's le Droit newspaper that;

"We don't have any problem with Anglophones setting up to do business in Quebec, but they need to respect the linguistic and cultural environment of Quebeckers."

But his words were contradicted by one of his demonstrators who was carrying a sign that read "Ottawa Quittez Quebec"(Ottawa get out of Quebec)


Here's a video of the television news report. 
 

7 comments:

  1. "The call to arms across two giant Quebec unions and three or four nationalist organizations"

    I can't believe that unions were in there.

    Those guys HAVE english people in their rank.

    Do they even care?

    What a bunch of f*cking racist intolerant unions that are supposed to be for "socialist democracy".

    Well...

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  2. "Most people were at home watching fellow Quebeckers win three gold skating medals at the Olympics, while the demonstration was on!
    I wonder if the demonstrators gave a cheer when they found out the news?"

    Go read Louis Préfontaine, a moderate in the face of what those people really think about Canadian performances in the Olympics.

    You know the answer and you know what I mean.

    I find very patient anglos customers who just went by, very patient, very peaceful and very tolerant in the face of those viscious attacks, reversals of truths and awful distortion of realities.

    Regards,

    TM

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  3. The company have a diffent social name in Québec, why it's different in Gatineau ? Sounds like a Pontiac fanatism !!

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  4. Sleep Country should change the names of all of its other stores in Quebec called Dormez-Vous to Sleep Country as well. It is within their national/international trademark rights. The office de la langue francais can do absolutely nothing about it.

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  5. Gatineau/Hull is located within the National Capital Region and should be an officially bilingual city like Ottawa. Federal laws trump provincial laws like Bill 101, etc. If Gatineau/Hull remains unilingual French, then Ottawa should return to a unilingual English speaking city like it was for well over a hundred years.

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  6. @Anglo Bashers,

    Right on.

    Maybe Hull-Gatineau region should separate from a sovereign Quebec and merge with Ontario just like the West Island of Montreal.

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  7. Now those buffoons are wailing since Sleep Country totally ignores them. WTG, Sleep Country! If it is not illegal, it is not illegal.

    But then they also call it "Predatory Practices". That makes me scratch my head. Which action is predatory? Who does the store hunt and kill? French language? Are the French militants really that insecure in their own shell?

    http://www.imperatif-francais.org/bienvenu/articles/2010/les-pratiques-predatrices.html

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