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Originally Posted by Acajack
Good news and bad news appears in the news cycle, is my reaction. After a fairly long string of bad news stories for French and its future, it's a nice change.
That said, I think that mother tongue and language spoken at home (stats for which are negative for French) are better indicators of what the future holds. They give an idea of what likely percentage of the population will have French as their main personal and family language, as opposed to it being a second (or third) language that they can speak if they have to.
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Are the mother tongue numbers indicative of a problem? Wouldn't the current trend see little change in a 100 years? Especially as immigrants and migrant Anglophones who have children and who don't assimilate into French culture tend to move to the rest of Canada.