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La
bibliothèque municipale de Nice concue par les architectes Bayard et Chapus et
le sculpteur Sacha Sosno. (“Tête carré by mistinguette18, on
Flickr")
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week ago, the Quebec government in response to critical news reports about the
lack of enforcement of Bill 101, announced that it will hire 43 more employees
for the OQLF in addition to the 23 employees hired last year; however, critics
have replied that even with the increase in staff the response is insufficient
so the government is turning to a high tech solution involving a modification
of the highly successful Patriot smart phone app which was released in the
States last year. The OQLR received 3361 complaints last year which is a 23%
increase from the previous year and the new technology is being touted as a full
spectrum response with instantaneous detection, communication and response. The
app which will be available on any smart phone allows the owner to photography
or video the offending situation and automatically uploads the data
instantaneously to the bureau along with the GPS location, cell phone number,
time and date.
The above is by Riba via Wikipedia under CC licence
Christine St-Pierre, the Liberal cabinet minister, said last Friday in
response to PQ criticism of the deficiences in bill 101 enforcement , "We have obviously
noticed that the situation is serious and must be monitored closely and monitored
constantly." There have been many criticisms of creeping English inroads
such as the names of stores in Montréal such as the one by Gilles Proulx, the famous Quebec Anglophobe who wrote in
the Montréal Journal on the Champlain Mall, « En
me promenant dans le Mail Champlain mouture 2011 avec sa pléthore de raisons
sociales anglaises, j'ai vu le Québec de demain. Eh oui, le Grand Montréal
finira par devenir un immense West Island. » The West referring to the
wealthy Anglo bastion of Westmount in Montréal. You can watch Gilles in
full throttle in the video below:
This new app
will hopeful end such humiliations as insensitive unilingual tourists from the
States asking native Québécois (pur laine) questions like ``Do you speak American? ‘
and ‘Do you take real money ?’
