The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 132

Can we expect next yearto see an Excuse My Anglais? But if Archie Bunker and Maude get some of the credit for makins it Dossible to deal with contro versial topics on television in Canada, anvbodv who has seen the show agrees that nobody on Excuse My French. is as bigoted as Archie. -i-i-'- i "The scripts are much more amiable," says Kirby of the Globe Mail. He has not heard of any nega- are more at ease with the French fact than they were five or 10 years ago. furthermore, he doesn't think English Canadians are nearly as "prejudiced, uptight and old-fashioned" in their thinking about Quebec McGill history professor Lapierre feels Excuse My French can make an important contribution' to understanding if it only conveys an impression of the lifestyles of the two "But the fastest way to destroy it would be to give it a mission," he says.

"Let it entertain. TV shows are not instruments of national unity." Lapierre, who himself is married to an English-speaking girl from Toronto, says the idea of the inter-marriage in Excuse My French is a good one and is in line with reality. "And marriages like ours need all the understanding and help they can get. It isn't easy." But Lapierre sees the traditional white Anglo-Saxon Protestant figure as declining in importance in the Quebecois reality. "It's more likely your French-Canadian daughter will marry an Italian or an Irish Catholic than a WASP in Quebec today.

The so-called New Cana- dians represent the fulcrum or the balance in Quebec society now," says Lapierre. And what of the Quebecois intellectuals who say they couldn't care less about the English? "Shades of 19th-century thinking," says Professor Lapierre. "Quebec is a pluralist society and anybody who doesn't know it is pretty damn naive. Ask Madame Laframboise the lady down the street if she is interested in the English and she'll tell you she has to be her sons have to work." At least one French-speaking TV critic in Montreal told me English Canada had better not hold its breath for the French to produce a similar program a sort of Excuse My Anglais. "It would be impos- sible to do one in French," said Jean Basile of le Devoir "because nobody here could possibly be interested." Laurier Lapierre, however, didn't think it was such a bad idea at all and thought he may even try to write such a program someday.

"But I'd base it on a French-Irish marriage. What glorious battles they could have on TV," he said. Paul Wayne admits his show reflects some ot his own personal impressions, experiences and mis- conceptions about the two solitudes. "When I was to be married to a French-Canadian- girl from Ottawa my in-laws asked if I were Protestant or Catholic. I said I was lewish.

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