McKibbins, Montreal, language police and complete jazz

One of the most popular articles on Independent.ie over the last few days was Le pub Irlandais is too Anglais:

McKibbin’s Irish Pub in Montreal is at the centre of the latest language tensions brewing in Quebec.

The owners of the popular pub have been ordered by Quebec’s language police to remove antique advertising posters for Guinness.

But AngryFrenchGuy says on this blog post here:

McKibbin’s Irish pub owners got the world’s media attention with two deliberate lies: that they had been told to take down vintage Irish posters and that they were told the staff spoke to much English amongst themselves. Vintage posters in English or any other language are perfectly legal and there is nothing the law can do about the language employee speak amongst themselves, unless an employee complains he was discriminated against, which wasn’t the case here.

More: The Montreal Gazette tells everyone to calm down.

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