With a joke, Montreal regrets that the Olympic flame will not pass in the Canadian metropolis.

The city of Montreal is a little sullen…and even more upset that it wasn't in the path of the Olympic torch. What's this funny video you're asking to be added to the list?

Montreal, an island between two streams, a city where streams meet, is especially known for its friendliness. It is even among the 10 cities with the best reputation in the world. Although 65,000 French people live in his territory, he finds it very annoying “tanning” as they say, not being part of the cities chosen for the Olympic torch.

It is clear that he will not dispute the choice of Lascaux, the Palace of Versailles, Poitiers, Auxerre or the caves of Nanterre, but his tourist office reminds him in a video sent directly to the French Olympic Committee that even he had enough. “surprise” to be forgotten. With a website now called “laflammeàmontreal.com”, he hopes to receive more visitors.

This highly humorous video and website has no other purpose than to make you fall in love with the city's most beautiful assets: Mount Royal, its 280 hectares of parkland, St. Catherine Street, St. Joseph. eloquence… This is a very clever communications operation and not a clear call for flames to pass through Montreal. This “joke”.

Moreover, Montreal has nothing to envy to Paris. It also hosted the Summer Olympics and is the only city in Canada to have such a distinction in 1976. The torch relay was worthy of a sci-fi movie at the time, to ensure that it passed between Athens and Canada without having to travel. 7,750 km separating the two points, the organizers used a satellite signal from Athens with the original flame through an ionized particle sensor. It was also here in Montreal that two men lit the Olympic cauldron for the first time as a symbol of the Anglophone and French-speaking communities.