{"id":91,"date":"2015-04-08T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/08\/ikea-sticking-to-french-only-mailouts\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:30","slug":"ikea-sticking-to-french-only-mailouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/04\/08\/ikea-sticking-to-french-only-mailouts\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA sticking to French-only mailouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Joel Goldenberg<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>This is the latest in a series of articles looking at stores and companies and their language policies in areas with majority and significant anglophone populations, as documented by Hampstead\u2019s Harold Staviss, a lawyer, and C\u00f4te St. Luc Councillor Ruth Kovac.&nbsp;<\/i><\/div>\n<p>IKEA, whose St. Laurent store may be the most bilingual in Quebec, has made a final decision to keep mailing out flyers only in French to Quebec customers, <i>The Suburban<\/i> has learned. <\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Madeleine L\u00f6wenborg-Frick, with corporate public relations for IKEA Canada, last year informed Hampstead lawyer Harold Staviss and C\u00f4te St. Luc Councillor Ruth Kovac that IKEA was considering a change to its policy of mailing out French-only flyers in Quebec. Staviss and Kovac had objected to the lack of English on the mailed flyers. <\/p>\n<p>In the interim, more French-only flyers had been sent out, and Staviss asked IKEA several times why this was the case.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f6wenborg-Frick replied to Staviss last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I appreciate your continued passion for communicating your dismay at receiving French flyers from IKEA, the decision has been made that we will not be producing English flyers for distribution in Quebec homes,\u201d she wrote in an e-mail copied to The Suburban.\u201d As stated before, the English version is available both in our Quebec stores as well as online. I regret that you do not find this solution satisfactory. 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