He didn't explain that you can send your children to a private school only if it receives no government funding. He didn't explain that medical services are not available in English in many places, even in places which may have a sizeable English-speaking population. He tried to obfuscate the issue of software language. He spoke of the language laws as being necessary to protect the French language, not to discourage the spread of English. I seem to recall that he once held the view, not all that long ago, that Canada wasn't a country at all.
Language is an emotional and divisive issue, as anyone living here soon learns.
However, a language is a living, evolving affair. A fact which the language purists of this province forget and the politicians presumably never knew. There is such an outpouring of emotion about the use of so-called anglicisms. Yet, in France, if one listens to a radio or TV broadcast one may hear uttered many dreaded English words. It seems that our purists have forgotten the origins and influence of this language which they protect so ardently.