Do you think Quebec's language law is too restrictive

[Spacemonkey]

We have law here in Province of Quebec concerning toys (and many other think but I stay now in the toys aspect) that says toys can't be sell in a store if there's no french versions of the toys or at least french instructions. I think that law is very constraining because many toys will never be translate in french and we won't be able to find except by online stores (probably at higher price).
That is the case of many transformers exclusives.

For example Toys'r'us exclusive Classic Soundwave:
We can't find it in Quebec Toy's'us stores (strangely 20th Anniversary Prime was available at the time). The worst is they didn't sell it online here in quebec. As I know when we buy online at Toysrus we don't buy somewhere in Quebec but in Ontario. After reading the law text, I didn't find anithing concerning online trading.

http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/charte/charte/clflgcomm.html

Maybe it could have some exceptions for collection items (items susceptible to be collectible). I can keep dreaming .

Watchout! that law will soon affect the video games


In other way why Hasbro don't make on pakaging for all north america?? They do all english boxes for US and tri-lingual boxes (english, french and spanish) for the rest (Canada fore sure and Mexico (i think)). I'm not an expert but I think they could save on production cost and make available items everywhere in North america.

[Spacemonkey]

Sorry, I didn't post it in the political way, just an expression of some frustrating elements i encounter.
So if you think the subject is innapropriate, that's ok for me i won't return on the subject.

[Team Jetfire]

It is funny how the rights of some people supersede the rights of another...

And yes I do this they are way to restrictive. I can see the point of French speaking Canadians, but English is a pretty prominent language. It would be expected that not everything in Quebec could have both languages.

[CobraCommander]

Yes, too restrictive for my tastes.

Tri-lingual packaging would be the way to go. If not then leave it in English and provide weblinks to other languages for instructions and the sort, if really really necessary.

Or perhaps put all possible instruction languages on a CD and package with the item.

[Robimus]

The best thing Hasbro could do is make all packaging Tri.......This would solve a bunch of issues with both Mexico and Canada. How many people now live in the US with spanish as a first language? 10,20,30 million? More people than live in all of Canada likely.

[BadJeff]

Yes, trilingual packaging would definately solve all of these issues. I Never really got a full understanding of the fine print on the laws out there so I should probably keep my pie hole shut. I seem to remember hearing that on store front sineage the French had to be the dominant print and English could be no more than 20% the size of the French. Is that true?

[Pascal]

Not even mentionning that there are french speaking people in the US and elsewhere in Canada (pretty much all provinces have french communities).

[jourdo]

Like BadJeff, I'm not really fluent in the language laws of Quebec... so I'll keep my comments to a minimum. I honestly didn't realize that certain things didn't make it there based on the packaging.

I don't see why Trilingual packages wouldn't solve the issues of making the toys available.

[Team Jetfire]

Trilingual works for me.

[Oreobot]

Aren't all European Tranformers packages tri-lingual? I have a European G1 Optimus Prime and it's tri-lingual (English, French and Spanish). There might be some other language on it, too, but I can't tell.