French Language & Culture

This project addresses the question as to whether there is an actual threat to French language and culture posed by the existence of a large English-speaking majority. Particular emphasis will be placed on the French-speaking community of Quebéc.

With the Québec referendum just passed, I had the opportunity to see the issues debated over an extended and fairly recent period. The newness and the closeness of my information provided me with an excellent vantage point from which to view what is and has been a hotly debated question in Québec since the conquest.

Many French-speaking Québecers claim that there is a threat to the French language and point to recent demographic studies which show that, out of a total population of some 6 million people, 2 million of them are Montrealers. Of these, Francophones form a bare majority and, by the turn of the century they will, in fact be a minority (48%). The problem exists in the fact that Montreal is a large, multicultural centre, where immigrants are quickly replacing native French-speakers. The French-speakers, as they move up the socio-economic ladder, are buying houses in the suburbs

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