Not the resto; the actual province.
I am sure that someway, somehow, Pauline Marois and the Parti Quebecois will blame this on the English but...
Here is the story, direct from the
Sun papers via
Fark.
MONTREAL - Quebec's education ministry admits it gave out 130,000 high school diplomas with one pretty obvious grammatical error on them.
Most of the diplomas were presented in last month's graduation ceremonies across the province, but the error has been there for the past nine months.
Twin sisters noticed the problem after graduating and informed QMI Agency, which called the education department.
The error lies with the fact that verbs in French must agree with either masculine or feminine subjects in a sentence.
The diplomas are signed as if the education minister and deputy minister are both women. That was the case until recently. But nine months ago, a man was appointed deputy minister.
Thus, the verb should have been changed to its masculine spelling since, in French, the male verb is predominant.
"It is so simple. We learn that in high school," said Andréanne Graton, who recently graduated from Collège Laval.
"If we had made an error like that at school, we would have looked ridiculous," said her sister Gaëlle.
It would cost $225,000 to redo all the diplomas, said a spokesman for the ministry. So they won't. But they will offer a corrected version to those students who ask for one.
The spokesman said they are sorry for the error, which was caused by not paying attention to detail.
Seriously this could happen anywhere but it did happen ther.
Oops.
There.
WFDS
