Outside Quebec, French is in decline

The recent White Paper on Official Languages says there were a little more than a million mother tongue francophones outside Quebec. According to Statistics Canada projections, it could be three per cent by 2036.

This threat to French is the underpinning of Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly’s promotion of an 'asymmetrical' approach to language, emphasizing French minority communities over English Quebecers, which, Andrew Caddell writes, he doesn’t support.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

June 2, 2021

OTTAWA—Every coin has two sides. Last week, I punctured the myth French is in decline in Quebec, by pointing out while descendants of the original French-Canadian settlers might be decl...

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