Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe is holding a lunchtime rally with his supporters and candidates in Laval, just north of Montreal.

Tim Duboyce

That means the party which has vigorously demanded stricter labour legislation to ensure workers in federally chartered industries — like banking and communications — are guaranteed the right to work in French, is sitting down at a restaurant whose name breaks Quebec's own language law.

Apostrophes are not permitted on signage to designate possession, except in the case of trademarks which are registered nationally, since that grammar construction does not apply in French.

And even if Bob's Diner did have a federally registered trademark, many nationalists say Quebec's French language charter should be made tougher to restrict all appearances of 's on signs.

— Tim Duboyce