How utterly pointless. I could perhaps see their point if the current signs were French-only and someone was asking for bilingual signs, but they're going to take down existing, perfectly serviceable signage to replace it with something which is deliberately more difficult for a section of the population to use.

Sometimes I just despair of the human race.

It seems the title is overly sensationalist, almost flamebait (what a shame for the CBC!). When you read the article, you learn that, by law, health related signage is exempted from the French only rule, and many staff of the hospital are bilingual, and clearly identified as such to accommodate English monolinguals. So the only thing they could remove legally is signs that don't have to be understood in a case of health emergency, i.e. directions, which, if anyone has already seen how a typical human behaves, doesn't change anything : almost no one reads the direction signs, no matter the language they're in. People will ask staff about directions when these are written in 20 feet high letters with flashing colored Christmas lights in the shape of arrows pointing to them less than 4 inches from their face.

No one will have a harder time receiving service in either French or English in that hospital. Someone tried to make a scandal about an (almost) non-issue.

But, I still don't agree with that decision. I mean, what goal does it serve, honestly? Isn't there any better way to spend the taxpayers' resources? What harm does a bilingual direction sign really do? Did the OQLF do it on purpose to be shat on by media and people all over the world (including the very people they think they're trying to protect : Quebec French speakers)? It seems to me like a moronic executive at OQLF wanting to justify their position and salary by being overzealous, despite their utter incompetence.