With one of the few successful initiatives that both generations of the governing Trudeaus ever were awarded with from a cultural and Canadiana point of view, sadly and shockingly examples of complete lack of understanding of basic French translation and horrid reliability on Google Translate continue in what is supposed to be a bilingual country.
Do Anglophone Canadians really lack even an ounce of effort to invest in order to communicate with their Francophone fellow citizens? After all French is an OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of Canada, NOT A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (it makes me cringe to see French offered as a "foreign language" from various educational and language centres).
Even a large corporation such as Telus (#Telus, run by a "Francois") that lacked the oversight of an outsourced firm's "handling of a Twitter account" to allow this brutal and blatant mistake and which has much more risk of public reputation and reduced revenues on the line, shows it has little regard for truly being Canadian.
http://business.financialpost.com/telecom/media/grind-yourself-go-kill-him-telus-sorry-for-badly-translated-french-tweets
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