Them Frenchies've got to stay together

Effectively. But anyway, here's the link.

MONTREAL — Attempts by the Conservative party to use Liberal leader Stephane Dion’s command of English against him illustrate the linguistic double standard that exists in Ottawa, says Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe.“They often require that a francophone speak an English that is almost perfect, but when an anglophone makes efforts they say he at least tries to speak French,” Mr. Duceppe said Friday. “I think there should be the same criteria for both.”

To be honest, I find the Quebec attempt to force itself upon the rest of the country rather amusing. Whether or not the prime minister can speak French doesn't particularly matter, in my own humble opinion, and quite frankly, I think it would be hoped that Quebec might just get mad enough about it one day that it'll secede like it's been threatening for oh so joyously long.

His comments came after the Conservatives aired outtakes from an interview with television news network ATV in which Mr. Dion appeared to not understand a question he was being asked — even after it was rephrased three times.Prime Minister Stephen Harper had pounced on the fumbled interview Thursday night to make the case that Mr. Dion is unfit to manage Canada’s economy.“When you’re running a trillion-and-a-half dollar economy, you don’t get a chance to have do-overs, over and over again,” the Conservative leader said. “And I think what this incident actually indicates very clearly is that Mr. Dion and the Liberal party really don’t know what they would do about the economy.”

As for that, I believe it was more the journalist asking the question, rather than Dion himself, as Terry Glavin points out.