French mistakes slip on a site in Old Quebec

“Stopped sidewalk”, “commercial and residential access”, “local traffic only”, could be read on traffic signs delimiting a site in Vieux-Québec on Sunday.

“You see one, you say to yourself” it’s not so worse “. Two, it’s doubtful. When you see three, it is unacceptable, “judges the citizen who denounced this series of grammatical errors.

These panels located at the corner of the porch and Isidore-Thibaudeau streets, which are the property of the McKinnon signaling company, raised the ire of dozens of people on the Facebook publication of Gilles Simard.

Adept of the sector where he walks regularly, the latter considered inconceivable to ignore these French mistakes. We are in Old Quebec, the accent of America. It’s completely unacceptablehe advances in reference to the motto of the city.

Imagine a tourist of the Francophonie who arrives and who sees that. It’s shameful.

Called to react to the existence of faulty signs, some passers -by seemed mixed. I find it ordinarysaid one of them, while another said he was indifferent.

The fault of the entrepreneur

Questioned on its link with regard to the panels, Quebec City has refuted all responsibility, recalling that they are not its property. His spokesperson François Moisan assures that the entrepreneur has been informed once the mistakes are reported.

We agree on the text, but we do not see the panels before installationhe explains.

You are still you who have the last responsibilityconsider Gilles Simard, dissatisfied with this answer. It is not up to us, the citizens, to start monitoring.

Joined by email by Radio-Canada, McKinnon had not provided any explanations when writing these lines.

With the information of Alexandre Painchaud