"Just Watch MeaE? is A film about eight people who grew up in the 1970s and how the bilingualism policies of Pierre Trudeau and the political events of the period form 1980-1995. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was Canada's Prime Minister from 1968-79, 1980-84, and he had a dream for the country's future: "The future was bilingualism." Fluently and expressively bilingual, Trudeau aggressively pursued a policy of redefining the relationship between Canada's two founding European nations. He dreamed of uniting the country through federal promotion of bilingualism and biculturalism. The eight Canadians profiled in this documentary grew up during the Trudeau era; some had parents who placed them in immersion programs, some went to "summer institutes" in another part of Canada to live and experience the other of

On the other hand, in the case of language policy, however, the results were decidedly mixed. The Trudeau government may have firmly implanted the principle of official bilingualism at the federal level, but only one provincial government, New Brunswick, followed suit. For its part, Quebec abandoned linguistic equality and adopted French as its only official language. More fundamentally, the francophone minorities in most provinces continued to decline in numbers. This decline seemed to have much more to do with underlying social processes than with the shortcomings of language regimes, provincial or federal. More Canadians may have acquired a knowledge of the second language, but there were fewer francophones in most parts of Canada outside Quebec and fewer Anglophones within Quebec.

Thanks to bilingualism, French was seen as enjoying privileged status throughout Canada, robbing Quebec of any distinctiveness. To make matters worse, the expansion of French-language services outside Quebec was considered by many English Canadians to be concession to Quebec, and a very expansive one at that. There was understandable anger when the Quebec government proceeded to establish the pre-eminence of French within its own territory.

In the Province of Quebec, up until the last thirty years, French and English-speaking Canadians lived quite separately. They each had their own separate communities. They went, or didn't go, to their own churches. They went to their own schools. By and large their jobs were different, with French-Canadians manning the service industries, the Church, politics, logging, farming, fishing, mining. English-speaking Canadians in Quebec were more commonly employed at the techni

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