{"id":16362,"date":"2015-12-10T13:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simpleplan.cz\/en\/?p=16362"},"modified":"2015-12-10T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:18:56","slug":"jeff-discusses-his-quebec-identity-in-a-new-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpleplan.cz\/en\/index.php\/jeff-discusses-his-quebec-identity-in-a-new-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff discusses his Quebec identity in a new documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, December 7th, T\u00e9l\u00e9-Qu\u00e9bec aired a very thought-provoking documentary called Crise d\u2019identit\u00e9<\/b> in which host Bernard Derome interviewed 14 well-known personalities from Quebec about their thoughts of Quebec and its identity in 2015.<\/p>\n

Among the 14 personalities was also Simple Plan’s own Jeff Stinco<\/b>, who made his mark in Quebec not only by being in Simple Plan, bu recently also by his successful restaurant businesses all over Montreal. Check out a still picture of Jeff from the documentary in the gallery:<\/p>\n

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One of the topics discussed in the documentary was the fact that via various channels, the French language<\/b> is slowly being “ghetto-ized” and replaced with English. In the documentary, Jeff defended Simple Plan’s choice of the use of English in their songs. He said that he and his band-mates grew up listening to Green Day, NOFX, The Offspring and Blink-182, so it just came naturally for them to “sing in the language of Cobain.” He also added that he was born in the West Island area, in a French-speaking family, grew up on an English street, juggled two languages \u200b\u200band was never seen as a “traitor” for not singing in French.<\/p>\n