Céline Dion, the ADISQ Controversy, and the Anglophone Press in Canada

ADISQ, the organization that honours excellence in the Quebec music industry, gave francophone singer Céline Dion an award for being the Anglophone Artist of the Year in 1990. At the ADISQ gala that year, which was televised live across Canada, Dion refused to accept the award. Dion’s decision to not accept the award, and the statement she made when turning it down, became the basis for a controversy that received a great deal of coverage in …