The Montreal Canadiens and the French language

The Montreal Canadiens, "les glorieux" have a unilingual anglophone coach and the media is unhappy. I think they have a point. The coach of les Canadiens should be able to speak French.

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Education

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• Montreal Canadiens
• Cunneyworth
• bilingual Hockey Language

[lingosteve]

I was sent an excellent video response in French on this subject, an interview with Normand Lester. When I went to approve it, it was gone. Can anyone help me out on this?

[killykash]

This is what happens when politics (or quasi-politics in the case of Quebec) interferes with a national sport. There is NO PLACE for politics nor language DEBATE within ANY sport. It's THAT SIMPLE. The media has its hands tied because the "separatist fans" are all mouth in cases like this. Look, the Habs have had Franco coaches for decades, they won some cups, had some good games, that's HISTORY. Now, just focus on learning how to win games.

[tp230]

@murphy9238481 It's not that "being an English person" (I will assume you meant being an English native speaker) is a disadvantage, it's rather not learning and not being able to speak the local language that is a disadvantage. And that's the "one place in the world" ? Have you ever lived in a non-English speaking country ? Learn the local language and you'll have the advantage of speaking English and the local language. Fairly simple. (Another thing: Quebecois are not French, they're Canadian)

[genomsbeats]

Guardiola does in fact speak Catalan. I believe the language spoken in the team is Spanish though.

[6262323]

Bye Bye canadien de montreal et bonjour États-Unis.When they sell the team to the U.S. there be nothing to fight over.When a company has too much problems they sell the company.They worked so hard to not sell the team to a U.S owner but this will just muck it up.The N.H.L. will have no problem to move the team no matter the cost. The N.H.L owner is crazy and won't care about montreal's people.QUEBEC dose not own the N.H.L.Montreal FRENCH or english will lose the team they love so much:(

[6262323]

Sell the team to the U.S. to end the problem.

[fahkqueue]

@LearningFrenchNow - every one of the players speak english, its the faggoty french speaking fans who are bitching and moaning about it

[murphy9238481]

most of the players dont speak french. So who cares? living in quebec is so screwed up. Its the one place in the world where being a english person makes you have a disadvantage. the french are so crazy about language laws here it makes me sick.

[666mathew]

@jasonUKbristol What's the name of the coach and the team?

[LearningFrenchNow]

I agree. The coach needs to be able to speak the same language as the players and media in order to be effective. In the case of Québec, it's French.

[gerry135]

@lingosteve Don't know about the video response, but there are a lot of radical sepratists who, because of their uneducated perspectives, threaten those who want political freedom. It is possible that he was forced to remove his video. Politicians won't touch the subject because they afraid of what may come of it. The concept that it is a 'sensitive' subject has politicians avoiding it. Truth is, it's a serious matter concerning education that needs immediate attention.