Singer Richard Petit denounces the pitiful state of Montreal, which seems to have lost its Latin with the decline of French in the inner city.
On Tuesday, the musician told QUB Radio about his mishap in the presence of two French friends whom he wanted to show the charms of the metropolis Quebec.
After walking a few blocks to the Bell Centre, the two Frenchmen didn’t seem impressed, thinking Montreal was French speaking.
“In the 2000s we had a desire to change things, but by 2011-2012 it was a total step backwards,” the Richard Martineau guest supported.
Mr. Petit denounces an utterly dead and sad city with its pot clouds that no longer resembles the Montreal of yore.
“We’re the new Amsterdam of America,” worried the artist, who found it hilarious having to step over rats that have colonized downtown Montreal.
“It looks like a city where we have abandoned all plans to make it beautiful. There’s nothing charming in Montreal anymore,” Petit said.
But it’s the decline of the French language in Montreal that seems to worry Richard Petit the most, who regrets it’s all happening in English.
Richard Petit also denounced on Facebook this sad observation of a city he loved so much, but as Mario Pelchat sings: “[il] don’t love him anymore