French is the legally and practically dominant language of Quebec. Yes, you have Anglophones in Montreal and a few other historic pockets. If you want to be 100% Francophone, you will have to perform a truly fascist ethnic cleansing on the "others" and I guarantee to you that it would be a horrible mistake to do so.
The rest of the Western World is polyethnic, polycultural to a certain extent and your land will be no exception, no matter what the haters think should be done. You can never achieve your solitude. You cannot haul up the anchor and row away from 350,000,000 Anglo-speakers. You are surrounded on all sides and you have nowhere to go. The Quebecois birth rate has plummeted and there are very few source regions in the world for suitable Francophone immigrants.
Your only option is to make peace with the sea of Anglos that surround you. You cannot do that as long as you want to erect a "great, big wall" (and have Ottawa pay for it).
To be honest, I'd prefer official unilingualism at the municipal level, not provincial. Even in Quebec some municipalities are majority Anglo.
In the French forum, we'd discussed sign-language rights for the Deaf and local-indigenous-language rights, but there was little interest in that. I think it's a mostly sovereignist forum.
I'd proposed Esperanto as a five-to-ten-times easier language to learn than English that French Quebecers and English Canadians who lack the aptitude to learn a more difficult language could learn as a common second language. I'd proposed allowing public schools to teach and students to be tested in a second language if their choice to reduce the threat of English in Quebec.
No interest in that either. In fact, they want to impose French on everyone and English too. So by imposing English, they create their own threat to the French language which they then try to remedy by imposing French on everyone to compensate.
Instead they just want to impose French Quebec-wide, not even sympathetic to indigenous Quebecers who don't know French and not particularly interested in Deaf rights either.
But then I thought, if your first language is neither English nor French, then official bilingualism just makes things harder for you.
Si while I'd prefer official unilingualism at the local level, provincially is the next best thing if that is what sivereignist want.
I'd even proposed redrawing boundaries. It would get Labrador and South East Ontario and Ontario gets Quebec's English border towns.
Still no interest. He wants to impose French on majority English Québec towns and abandon majority French communities outside Quebec to English. Makes no sense to me.
But even with that, if Québec wants to impose French on olits Deaf, indigenous, Anglos, allophones, etc., if declaring each province unilingual breaks the impasse, then let's do it. Unofficial communities would still be better off having one language imposed on them than two.
Provincial unilingualism is a terrible idea, but better than official bilingualism and might stand a chance politically, so why not?
My ancestors came from the British Isles and their native languages were neither Germanic nor Latinate. In fact, their languages are millenia older (maybe many millenia) than English, French, German, Italian ...
Curious. What languages?
