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Originally Posted by Acajack
Pretty sure it was René Lévesque who quipped that in Pierre Elliot Trudeau, it seemed like it was the Elliot that got the better of him. Not Jean Chrétien.
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Sounds like a pretty racist statement, something like Levesque or (by jove) Parizeau would say.
In Quebec your linguistic purity goes hand in hand with how
pur laine you are. This is why Quebecers look down on Acadians, especially those with the temerity to speak
Chiac.
Quebecers are very much like ancient Romans, a society where your status is determined by the quality of your rhetoric, discourse and oratory (the superiority of you linguistic skills).