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Mitch Garber doesn’t know who Gilles Vigneault is.

After scolding his fellow anglophones in a speech last week for their ignorance of Québécois popular culture, Garber was invited onto the popular talk show Tout le monde en parle, where anglos who will confirm nationalist biases are always welcome.

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The multimillionaire gambling mogul, well-known in French Quebec as a regular in an entrepreneurial-themed television reality show, had said he was “embarrassed” that anglos don’t know who Martin Matte and Robert Charlebois are. (Matte is a humorist, Charlebois a singer-songwriter.)

Garber was hoisted with his own petard when the host of Tout le monde en parle, Guy A. Lepage, sprung a quiz on him, asking him to identify some other entertainers who are household names in French Quebec.

He was unable to identify Vigneault, the singer-songwriter who composed the nationalist anthem Gens du pays.