journalist patrick lagasse meets me to help me understand a little bit of what many feel is at stake.alk about the whole history of french identity, the separatist movement but i have to get to the pressing matter of the day, pasta-gate. >> what do you want to know about pasta-gate? >> for those not up on current quebec politics, pasta-gate refers to an incident where local authorities notified an italian restaurant that they were in violation of french laws because they used the word "pasta." which is italian. >> this is -- okay, stop apologizing, okay? >> don't get me wrong, my last name is bourdain. i lean french, hard. >> i am enormously sympathetic to the language laws. >> you don't think that's preposterous? >> i do not think it's preposterous, but here we have a situation. >> it is stupid. i agree with you completely, that this -- this province 40 years ago was in some respect an english city. so we needed to have language laws for signage and stuff. >> now, signage, for instance, must by law be principally in french. french first in all things. >> but every bureaucracy produce