CAQ minister defends use of 'historic Quebec anglophone' | The Corner Booth

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]When you bring up historic Quebec anglophone community, that in and of itself rupts people the wrong way. We have to fit into this group of being a historic Quebec Anglo. That's an issue.

[00:00:11]And hearing that again is going to rupt people.

[00:00:14]>> I you know what I I I get it. And I So the what I'm asking you to understand is how do I legislate language if I don't define who gets uh a pass because of language and who doesn't? So, you know, legislation is a broad sword, not a scalpel. If I'm trying to legislate French, I have to define who's English and I have to define who gets services uh who gets access to that education and who doesn't.

[00:00:40]>> How about anyone who wants service in English can get service in English. A French person is not going to ask for service in English. You lose nothing.

[00:00:46]>> Well, so if you look at the bilingual experiment in in New Brunswick, the reality is if you have a person, and this is uh backed up by data, okay? If you have a person from Cambodia, right, Cambodia, French is the second language then. Okay. If you have a person from Cambodia who moves to Toronto, there's a 99% uh transmission of English language to that person. If you bring that person to New Brunswick, there's an 80% conversion to English. Even though their second language is not English, it's their third language, it's their the second language is French, they're going to convert 80% of the time to English. And in Quebec, it's 50. And so that tells you that French is always going to be vulnerable. And even with the the laws that we have in Quebec, we still have difficulty creating franophones out of people who are more franophhone than