This is “without surprise”, said Duty, Created in 1999 by four associations for the protection and promotion of the French language, the 2022 prizes of the English Carpet Academy were awarded in mid-December to the French President and the Canadian Prime Minister.
If the jury passes “Literary personalities or simply lovers of French” President-elect Macron writes newspaper, “This should be especially underlined ‘His resignation to the dominant use of English’ In the functioning of the European Union, the use of the French language is often reduced to its simplest expression”.
“We know the propensity of the French president, promoter of ‘start-up nation’, to express himself in English”, A Quebec newspaper comments.
The chairman of the jury, the French writer Philippe de Saint Robert, recalled that after Brexit there was no English in any of the member states of the European Union. “The mother tongue of 1% of Europeans has official status only in Ireland and Malta.”
Duty The English Carpet Academy says it has departed from its rule of not presenting the award to a sitting president. But “Emmanuel Macron has shown his Anglophilia so much that we have no choice”, Philip de Saint Robert was funny. The French president specifically competed with SNCF for its application “SNCF Connection” And the city of Nice for its motto “I love well”.
Justin Trudeau is honored with the Special Jury Prize for Foreigners for appointing Mary Simon to the position of Governor General of Canada. This woman is of Inuit descent Does not speak French, one of the country’s two official languages along with English. Duty He recalls that this appointment was subject to a motion on the initiative of the Superior Court of Quebec. “Citizens group felt violation of Canadian constitution. New governor-general pledges to learn French.
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