JEAN PAUL DESBIENS

The Quebec government ought to require respect by law for the French language in the names of companies and in their advertising ... Manufacturers and big trading companies must at some time rather appear before the government to be registered or to be legally recognized. That's the time the government should lie in wait for them. Give yourselves French names, advertise yourselves in French, " we don't know you," it can say.

Shall we ever have the government that will not be satisfied to be practical? .... Who can estimate all that the practical people have done to us.

Freedom isn't a gift, it's a task.

Shall we ever have the government that will not be satisfied to be practical? .... Who can estimate all that the practical people have done to us.

The Quebec government ought to require respect by law for the French language in the names of companies and in their advertising ... Manufacturers and big trading companies must at some time rather appear before the government to be registered or to be legally recognized. That's the time the government should lie in wait for them. Give yourselves French names, advertise yourselves in French, " we don't know you," it can say.

Freedom isn't a gift, it's a task.