Decline of French | The duty

Mr Legault,

In your presentation of your priorities for the upcoming session, you emphasize the objective of stopping the decline of French in Quebec. It’s a laudable goal, but it’s mostly about playing catch-up. […]

In order to increase your chances of success, we respectfully suggest that you resort to a more offensive strategy and seek to demonstrate the usefulness and marginal profitability of French in all areas of everyday life. […]

It is necessary to create a variety of needs and appetites which, imperatively, can only be satisfied by recourse to French. We must also offer newcomers an attractive “welcome house”, where jobs, without being negligible, will only be an entry point towards “well-being”.

There would also be need for a major information campaign to dissociate the Francophonie from what is negative, namely the mafia, dissolute and anarchic side of our culture. […]

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