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OQLF still persecuting deli owner after 36 years<\/i><\/b>
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\nBy Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBill 14 is more of a threat than anything else that is going on right now, and I don’t think that my English-speaking friends are aware of it,\u201d Harry Schick told The Suburban<\/i> in an interview.<\/p>\n

Schick, who has for 50 years operated Swiss Vienna Patry and Delicatessen in Pointe Claire, again gained national and international notoriety last week, when he dubbed one of his dishes Pasta Salad Marois, after Quebec language police sent him a letter telling him that using the word ‘pasta’ on signs in his store is prohibited in the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put a photo of the salad on Facebook and got 19,500 likes within 24 hours,\u201d he smiled. \u201cCustomers, both French and English, have flocked to the store\u2014150 on Friday alone\u2014and we’re selling more pasta than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schick is no newcomer to receiving nastygrams from Quebec culture officials. Language inspectors began to visit his store soon after the first Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government passed Bill 101 in 1977, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey never stopped.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Tongue troopers have relentlessly pressed complaints about the sign beside the entrance to Swiss Vienna, which says ‘Welcome’ in 35 languages \u201cincluding the original languages of Quebec: Cree and Inuktitut,\u201d Shick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cases never stopped because there has never been a Supreme Court of Canada judgment about it,\u201d he explained. For example, charges against his welcome messages were dismissed years ago, after his lawyer showed that the Quebec tourism department had placed an advertisement urging foreigners to visit the province by using a similar multilingual message of hospitality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy fear the truth?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThough the province’s language laws are billed as a means to build up francophones,\u201d Shick said, \u201care they in fact a means to degrade English in Quebec?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow does a Panini sign affect French in Quebec?\u201d asked the Belgian native, whose mother tongue is French. \u201cIf it does, this province is in big trouble. They want every French sign to be three times the size of English. My staff speak five or six languages, and my anglophone and francophone customers are of equal stature.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people are afraid to hear the truth,\u201d Shick asserted. \u201cDuring the past three-and-a-half decades, I have been interviewed by all kinds of national and international news outlets, including National Geographic, the Washington Post and Reuters. During that period, not a single francophone news outlet in Quebec has ever called.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLikewise, no newspaper has ever asked the OQLF under Quebec’s access to information
\nlaw to show the true complaint about any one store,\u201d he protested. \u201cIt could be a single language inspector filing all of these complaints.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are brought before the court, you have a right to know who your accuser is,\u201d Schick asserted. \u201cEverything that the OQLF does is top secret.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re now worried about Bill 14,\u201d he warned. \u201cI employ more than 25 people. If Bill 14 is passed, we will only be able to employ 24, even if that means that we cannot grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nHundreds of customers flocked to Swiss Vienna <\/b>Pastry and Delicatessen in Pointe Claire last week <\/b>to photograph\u2014and buy\u2014pasta salad, after <\/b>owner Harry Shick renamed it in honour of <\/b>Quebec Premier Pauline Marois.<\/b><\/div>\n

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