Allison Hanes: 'Bonjour-Hi' is just good customer service

The bustling boutiques of Montreal’s Ste-Catherine St. seemed a world away from the National Assembly Thursday, where how retail employees greet customers was the hot-button topic.
While holiday shoppers went about their merry business, the government and the Opposition raged about the ubiquitous “Bonjour-Hi” being an “irritant” that undermines the predominance of French in Quebec and represents a dangerous slide into bilingualism.
Yet an unscientific survey of stor