{"id":16785,"date":"2014-11-07T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T09:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=16785"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T09:44:21","slug":"stirring-up-trouble-in-the-language-war-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/stirring-up-trouble-in-the-language-war-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Stirring up trouble in the language war pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is being criticized for not speaking French in a speech at a recent conference in Iceland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are times, especially on the international scene, when speaking English is required to be understood, he said. In the case of the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland last week, where Mr. Couillard spoke in English only, no simultaneous translation was available. The former prime minister of France delivered his remarks in English as did the president of Iceland and a Norwegian minister, Mr. Couillard noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all due respect, I think my colleague is exaggerating,\u201d Mr. Couillard told the National Assembly in response to a question from Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec leader Fran\u00e7ois Legault, who was on the attack, saying the premier \u201cfailed to live up to his responsibilities as a representative of the Quebec nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are two angles when it comes to language: expression and comprehension. Here\u2019s a little challenge for him; go to the London and New York financial circles and pitch your remarkable economic plan &#8230; in French only. Let\u2019s see how that goes. I submit the following hypothesis,\u201d Mr. Couillard said,\u201cwhen we make important remarks, especially those involving the economic development of Quebec, it\u2019s usually a good thing to make sure everyone understands what we are saying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is being criticized for not speaking French in a speech at a recent conference in Iceland. There are times, especially on the international scene, when speaking English is required to be understood, he said. In the case of the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland last week, where Mr. Couillard spoke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/stirring-up-trouble-in-the-language-war-pot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Stirring up trouble in the language war pot&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-16785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dealing-with-idiots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-4mJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16786,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785\/revisions\/16786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}