[Farox]

You're not too far off. Companies have to, with growing size, do more and more stuff in french. At large companies that aren't exempt you must have a french keyboard for example and code comments have to be in french.

[JiPi]

I live in Quebec and worked in big organizations, even public ones like the Governement and a city, and never ever heard that. Source please?

[awaythrowme]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francization#Francization_in_Qu...

Any large company should have a policy document which states the absurd rules including installation of French software versions and use of French keyboards, hiring and e-mail policies. I believe the policies only apply to businesses with over 50 employees so you would not have encountered them in the public sector.

[kmlymi]

A lot of companies fragment themselves into smaller chunks with employees under 49 to avoid laws like this.

[guiomie]

I'll even add that if your comment isn't in proper Québec semantics and grammar, you might be subject to flagellation.