The anglicization of the world is here

Rather than embracing the facility Montrealers have in English as an asset to business, Quebec nationalists’ hatred for everything English blinds them to a global trend.

Quebec Premier François Legault is the new King Canute, demanding the tide of English stop rolling in from the outside, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 22, 2023

MONTREAL—I won a trip to Europe in 1970, and in June of that year, my brother and I travelled across England and the continent. When I returned two months later, I expressed satisfaction I had seen Europe before it became “Americanized.” Each European country had its o...

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