Montreal bus driver celebrates 40 years of official bilingualism by throwing English-speaking passenger off her bus

[Dennis Baron]

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Montreal bus driver celebrates 40 years of official bilingualism by
throwing English-speaking passenger off her bus

After a passenger asked her for the time in English, a Montreal bus
driver called the police and ordered all twenty passengers to get off
her bus. Her supervisors defended the action because, while English
and French have been Canada's two official languages for exactly forty
years, French and French alone is the official language of the
province of Quebec.

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