All Quebecers recognize McGill University’s status of excellence, and its international reputation in terms of research is well established. The problem does not lie specifically in its status as an English-speaking university, but rather in the fact that it trains unilingual English-speaking graduates from various countries who will live for several years in Montreal without taking any French integration course, although Quebec official. Often, these young students will have to work during their studies, like those at Concordia, without learning to communicate in French with their Quebec customers, who are increasingly frustrated at not being served in French. I would like McGill and Concordia to train bilingual graduates in order to better integrate their foreign students into the French-speaking culture of Quebec. It is above all a matter of respect for the Quebec nation, which would no longer welcome them with suspicion, but with pride in a America assimilating to Anglophone unilingualism! To meditate…
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