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Originally Posted by Acajack
Statistics Canada forecasts that the % of mother tongue francophones in Quebec will drop by 10% to around 70% by 2036. It's around 80% right now and was about 85% from the 1960s until just a few years ago.
So we're talking about a decent drop way before 100 years. In just over a decade in fact.
And anglophones in Quebec generally aren't assimilating to francophone culture. Immigrants for their part still split close to down the middle between francophone culture and anglophone culture, which is a net gain for the anglophone share since they are much more numerous and would normally be drawing 10% and not close to half of newcomers if the proportions were accurately reflected.
Even in Montreal if the local demographic proportions were reflected you'd only have maybe 20% of newcomers going to English, as opposed to half at the moment.
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The question is what will the grandchildren of these immigrants speak. They will speak French or they will move out of Quebec. The draconian policies are pretty effective at ensuring that. So we will have brown Francophones which if that's a problem the issue isn't language.