04-06-2019, 09:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2019, 09:34 AM by panamaniac.)
The simple answer to the question re the Hamilton salesman (of Hispanic origin?) would be that he is far more likely to encounter customers who speak Spanish and have limitations wrt their English than he is to encounter people who speak French and have limited English.
There's nothing to prevent a restaurant in KW from having a bilingual English-French menu, but if it's not a French restaurant (an unfortunate local "gap"), it would seem an odd affectation.
People sometimes forget that Canada is not a bilingual country, it is an OFFICIALLy bilingual country and these are two different things. There is no requirement or expectation that individual Canadians will be bilingual, with certain exceptions.
There's nothing to prevent a restaurant in KW from having a bilingual English-French menu, but if it's not a French restaurant (an unfortunate local "gap"), it would seem an odd affectation.
People sometimes forget that Canada is not a bilingual country, it is an OFFICIALLy bilingual country and these are two different things. There is no requirement or expectation that individual Canadians will be bilingual, with certain exceptions.