Xavier Menard of Gatineau is mad as hell.

He is a 17-year-old high school student, a francophone youngster who wanted to start a business.

So he submitted his name to the government for approval and the response he got was that the proposed name was just too English-sounding.

So what did he do?

Well what a lot of kids these days too. He decided to take his message online.

“I want to create jobs but can’t because Quebec has decided that my company name is too English and Madame Marois has the nerve to come on TV at the end of the parliamentary session to tell me that Quebec is going better,” he said in his video.

Xavier says that he is not against protecting French but he says the Quebec government is killing small business.

And he finds the whole thing ridiculous saying the Cirque du Soleil does a better job promoting French internationally than any Quebec minister could ever do.

All he wants to do is to set up a company with a name that would attract international business, and yet he is being told "no."

You know that when kids, when francophone kids, see that there is something wrong - when it's not just anglophones who notice - the house is burning.

Then you can be pretty well assured that there is a problem

Mayors cash in

Another disgraced former mayor is walking away with a big payday.

Alexandre Duplessis of Laval came in to save the day after Gilles Vaillancourt quit after being charged with fraud and gangsterism but he then had to quit when he became involved in a prostitution scandal.

Duplessis had pleaded his innocence until a text conversation came to light with sordid details of the arrangement and of his choice of intimate clothing

So his parting gift from the good people of Laval is $170,000, for a guy that served for seven months.

Vaillancourt, by the way, got a quarter of a million dollars and Applebaum, $268,000.

Perhaps if the government in Quebec City could concentrate less on language and less on figuring out ways to leave Canada it could get around to changing a really stupid law that rewards incompetency, dishonesty and failure.

A good week for royalty

It was hard to believe how so many people got whipped up into a frenzy this week over the royal baby.

Breathless and giggling commentators were beside themselves with anticipation over such momentous and life changing occasion.

The fact is that 361,000 other babies were born in the world the same day. But with all the bad news sometimes it's nice to talk about stuff that really doesn't matter.

I'm not the biggest fan of the monarchy.

It's a relic of another time of hierarchy and subservience and something a modern Canada can live without.

But I have to admire how this whole thing was handled.

The baby is worth is weight in gold to "the firm” as Prince Philip has called the Windsors. We wish them well. All in all, a very good week for the family business.