But for context the ministry has absolutely no bearing on French as real life people actually speak it. This is a body of people whose power is essentially just to maintain the government’s language style guide and issue strongly worded letters to a herd of cats who largely ignore them. So while this is technically a ban when it comes to government correspondence it could be the poster child for sensationalizing a headline.
I used to work in an Ontario tobacco farming town (English), and lots of French folks would hitchhike into town to get summer priming jobs. The term "Les chips" for potato chips was really common, but on French and bilingual labels you must use the word Croustilles. That's just one example of very many.
There was damn near a panic when Contact Lenses became a commonly purchased item, because there was no French word for them. Eventually they came up with one, and you no longer hear "Le Contactlens."
Seems like it's the term they use over there. Wikipedia agrees with it [0].
> when Contact Lenses became a commonly purchased item, because there was no French word for them
French wiki seems to think the correct term is just... a word by word translation of "contact lenses". Not sure what the big deal was. [1]
When contact lenses came about, for the longest time there was no French word, so Quebec folk just called it by the English name because nobody knew what the official word would finally be.
Quebec has a literal Language Police. Here's an article about them harassing restaurants for writing too many English-only Facebook posts, and employing people who don't speak French well enough.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8539627/quebec-language-police-ba...
Not sure why someone would move there and be upset about the language. Seems like it hasn't changed since... 1608?
The USA is a 40 minute drive away...