clipped from: en.wikipedia.org The Montreal-Philippines cutlery controversy was an international incident that arose in 2006, when a 7-year-old boy of Filipino birth was repeatedly disciplined by authorities in his elementary school in the Montreal suburb of Roxboro, for using his cutlery in a Filipino way. The boy's parents protested, and the story was picked up by the media; in response, the Canadian embassy in Manila was surrounded by protestors, and Jose Brillantes, the Philippines Ambassador to Canada, issued an official condemnation, saying that it was "an affront to Filipino culture."[1]