Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Don't worry OFKU0, I know how passionate you are about the whole issue regarding all the money going into bilingualism. Funny thing is, I used to be a translator and having two national languages is what kept me in the job market!
vox_rox, that was a good reply. I know Quebecers respect Trudeau on some degree, but the hardcore separatists look to him negatively BECAUSE he was a French-Canadian from Quebec and they felt betrayed by their own "kind" as it were, despite the things he did to promote French culture. My own family, which is completely French-Canadian, has more than a few separatists and stuff like the War Measures Act comes up more than often at family gatherings. It saddens me a lot.
I realize that a popular ex-Prime Minister has to have something big named after him, but aren't there other big airports in Canada? How about Toronto? Perhaps they chose an airport in Quebec since this is where Trudeau was from? Regardless, I dread going back to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on Montreal's predominantly French East End, since the separatists are just looking for things to be pissed about, and that renaming just fueled the flames of something that I wish would just go away. Some of them don't understand that sending the army was in response to what were basically terrorist attacks.
However, despite Dorval pretty much existing just for the airport, I'll probably never stop calling it Dorval Airport.
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