Wednesday July 13, 2011, the federal court of Canada ordered Air Canada to pay Michel Thibodeau and his wife Lynda $12.000 both members of the society of Metis malcontents in Canada who claimed that Air Canada had violated their linguistic rights, by refusing them service in Joual (French patois). Since both of the complainants are bilingual this seems to be simply a frivolous charge based on nothing more than an attempt to squeeze money out of Air Canada.

Apparently Joual lanhuage rights crusader Michel Thibodeau asked for a 7Up and received a Sprite instead from a unilingual English-speaking flight attendant. Which a federal Metisse judge ruled had caused them pain and suffering and the loss of enjoyment on their vacation. Of course we must also take into consideration the fact that the Thibodeau's were headed for the U.S. for their vacation, thus they were able to speak English, and that immediately brings to mind that this this legal manoeuvre by them was the least to say frivilous, and an attempt to gouge money from Air Canada. As usual the judge chosen for this case was one of their own race, and thus the reasons for this fine became all to clear..

Now we need to take into consideration that should an English-speaking person have taken similar action with regards to their language rights, more than likely they would have a Joual-speaking judge hearing their case. the results would have been the opposite, because the language of the judge would have taken preponderance over the language rights of the English-speaking compalnant.. Which puts the issue in a different light when language and race take precedence over the language rights of the individuals concerned, and justice has no meaning whatsoever to bigots in the judiciary.. The issue thus, is a question of the courts in Canada becoming somewhat like those of Nazi Germany, where their so-called justice system was never called into question..

Kenneth T. Tellis