Uh-oh. Apparently tourists are getting served in English first downtown and even francophones turn to English to get service there.

I suppose it might be true, but the generation doing service and retail jobs now has mostly been educated in French so I doubt they have trouble switching to French as they might have done in the bad old days of the fat lady at Eaton's.

(This blog has steered resolutely clear of language issue stuff, but is detecting a slight disturbance in the Force these days.)
posted at 13:02