And that’s a defensible answer. Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec was supposed to be the no-nonsense, pro-business, fiscally conservative party:to create an economic climate more hospitable to innovation, investment and entrepreneurship. But it also promised to put longstanding socio-linguistic questions to bed.
No significant politician in Ottawa or Quebec City dares question the death-of-French narrative. The rest of us should. Among the headline items in two widely cited papers released by the Office québécois de la langue française earlier this year included Statistics Canada’s projection of “decrease in the population using French at home and an increase in the population using English at home .
2016 census found nearly a quarter of recent Quebec immigrants had come from six French-speaking African nations — Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Côte d’Ivoire — plus eight per cent from Haiti, and another seven per cent from Francophonie members Syria, Lebanon, Romania and Vietnam.Article content
To all the people in quebec who refuse to speak french: GET OUTTA HERE AND MOVE TO TRONNO!
I wish the BlocQuebecois would do their job and separate. End this nonsense.
NtlPost_FoxNewsNorth's gaslighting opinion pieces HAVE injured many civilians .
'nor does it speak to a decline in French in the public sphere' This is wrong. cselley Knowledge of french doesn't equal usage of french. Also recent immigrants are less francophone than 10 or 20 years ago. Most non-franco immigrants continue to assimilate into english.
May hurt Quebec if they up and leave for Ontario again.
Surprised that they have not gone after BMO.
Let the witch hunting and the public lynching commence!
Meh. Same old stuff we heard would happen for last 60 years.
What war, Chris ? Nobody in Quebec even talk about it anymore. This 'war' only exists in your head.
War on anglo? You are certainly in an emotion failure and it is amazing from people usually so strong, so superior to all others citizen in Canada react in such phoney manner !
Canadian Pacific Rail made such a great decision years ago when they decide to move their head office out of Montreal. Quebec is now courting EV battery makers to set-up shop in the province. They are going to have to come up with some big subsidies to bring them in.
They would be better off learning Mandarin
There's only one way this ends... and it's badly for Quebec
So we will see more exodus from Quebec.... they will never learn.
Don't ya mean their racist view?