Habs too English, PQ leader says

Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois says she would like to see more francophone players on the Montreal Canadiens.

Marois told reporters that the hockey team does not reflect the reality in the province, and the lack of a Quebec identity on the Habs ends up serving the federalist cause.

The PQ leader's comments follow the appearance of the party's language critic Pierre Curzi on the popular French-language program Les Francs-tireurs on Sept. 8, when he stated that it was "not by chance" that there are so few francophone players on Quebec's only NHL hockey team.

Curzi toned down his rhetoric Wednesday, saying he did not believe it was a federalist plot to stack the team with English-speaking players, but simply that the lack of francophone players has changed the identity of the Habs.

WOW! It seems some folks just have to complain about anything to be happy. The PQ's "language critic"??! Is that a full time job?

I think my thoughts on this subject were mirrored by Liberal cabinet minister Line Beauchamp who said there is no federalist ulterior motive to the makeup of the team.

"Come on, it's a hockey team that's trying to win the Stanley Cup," Beauchamp said.

Curzi also made headlines two years ago when he denounced Paul McCartney's free concert on Quebec City's Plains of Abraham to celebrate the city's 400th anniversary, saying the star shouldn't be singing in English on the site of a historic battle between British and French troops.

So I think that Celine Dion shouldn't sing in either language in any country where there has been an historic battle!
I should think enough is enough.

Go - Habs - Go!