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Old Posted Dec 5, 2009, 9:18 AM
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Just for the record:
Many people speak french in Canada outside of Quebec. About 1/2 the population of New Brunswick speaks french. There are french speakers in northern Ontario, not to mention Ottawa. Winnipeg was originally settled by francophones, and my grandmother was born in Manitoba in a town where no one spoke french until they learned it at school. Alberta and BC have communities like Maillardville in Coquitlam. They have churches which have mass in french etc. To say that outside of Quebec every native-born Canadian speaks English as their mother tongue is very ignorant.