Remember how the left drooled over "Canadian style Healthcare"? And now sorta don't remember nuttin'....----Anglo family with cancer-sick dad told to speak French in Hull hospital

Anglo family with cancer-sick dad told to speak French in Hull hospital:

This is reportedly what happened. John Gervais, a 77-year-old navy veteran, was admitted to hospital after his health suddenly declined. Tests pointed to lung or bone cancer, the Citizen said.

Gervais was being kept in the hospital's emergency room and growing steadily weaker, said his son-in-law, Steve Long of Ottawa.

The trouble started when an orderly in his twenties was asked to help Gervais use a portable commode, the Citizen said.

Gervais' wife, Iris Beeler-Gervais, told QMI Agency the man had been rough with her husband and rude to the family previously. 
But he got particularly hostile after some liquid from a bedside tray spilled on his shoes as he was helping the patient out of bed.

“[The orderly] said: ‘This isn’t a hotel. I don’t speak English; this is Quebec,’ ” according to Beeler-Gervais.

Responding to a call from his upset wife, Long went to the hospital and confronted the orderly.

“Speak to me in French! This is Quebec!” Long recounted him saying.

Long told the Citizen the man asserted his right to be addressed in French in a loud voice.

“He didn’t whisper it," said Long, adding it was apparent the worker could speak French and English. "Everybody in that emergency room heard him.”

Long said the family was already feeling vulnerable because of Gervais' rapid deterioration. 
Ironically, Gervais is bilingual but was too weak to speak.

“It’s a situation where you need someone to treat you with compassion," Long told the Citizen. "Instead he stormed off complaining about pee on his shoe [It turned out to be water].