Université de Saint-Boniface

Well, at best, I'd say it's impolite.

Raymond Hébert is a retired political scientist from the Université de Saint-Boniface.

It certainly politicizes the use of French in the legislative assembly in a way that I think is unhealthy.

unhealthy.It may not be headline news in Quebec, where the separatist Party Québécois won a minority government on Monday night

Uh, members can put in an earpiece if they don't speak French, if they're not fluent in French." So those accommodations are all made, but there are some accusations of the, uh, toward the premier of, of sort of politicizing the f- the French language by conducting himself in this form.

Yeah, there's a, a professor emeritus of, uh, political studies at the University of Saint Boniface, R- Ramon Abar, who says, quote, "Well, at best I'd say it's in- impolite," and goes on to say that, uh, there, this, to suggest that the premier's actions in the chamber might undermine his government's efforts to advance bilingualism.

And, uh, yeah, I just, th- this one has m- The premier has, has done, said things I, I, I think at, at an increasing level that has a lot of us scratching our heads.

And, uh, it's, it's interesting in a way, entertaining.