It is frankly discouraging to learn that nearly 17,000 young French speakers on the island of Montreal have become English speakers between the last two censuses (Jean-François Lisée, April 20).
On the other hand, however, almost 4,400 English speakers of the same age went the other way, surprisingly.
As for young allophones, I’ll just let you imagine the undermining of French, with 25,600 of them being added to the English speakers, quite simply.
Whether Anglophile French speakers like it or not, the assimilative language with the greatest population density in Montreal is English at the moment.
In this regard, without this salutary boost given by Doctor Camille Laurin that was Law 101, more than 45 years old, where would we be now?
Even from deep Quebec, we can only see that this dike against the English-speaking flood, even reinforced by law 96, will be incapable, at the rate things are going, to have a containment effect for much longer.
The CAQ politicians, usurpers of the French fact for electoral purposes, lacked courage by not imposing Law 101 at the collegiate level, where, clearly, the breach is most evident.
To take up the words made by Jean-François Lisée in his chronicle of Duty of April 20: “In any case, French is fading. More or less quickly depending on where you are within Canada and within Quebec. »
At the crossroads, how can we avoid a tipping point followed by the advent of a folkloric dialect as contentment?