Dan Delmar: To avoid silly language spats, end the Two Solitudes

The Bonjour-Hi affair — now in its third week — is a small victory for Quebec’s language hawks, hobbyists who’ve been denouncing the expression for years. To deprive them of fodder for these unproductive, nationalistic crusades, Canadians everywhere must agree to abandon rivalry between the Two Solitudes.
It’s the title of a 1945 Hugh MacLennan novel where the French-English duality figures prominently. The idea is often taken too literally by both English and Frenc