Halifax Stanfield International Airport Developments

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I am not familiar with Winnipeg but I agree with Hali87 about where Halifax sits as far as the cities I do know. It is noticeably more "Francophone friendly" than BC or AB. I think it also has a bit of a Francophone community with institutional support (e.g. CSAP), even though those schools or neighbourhoods are not very well known or recognizable (instead of there being a St. Boniface type town a lot of the bilingual families will just live in Clayton Park or Bedford). Plus it's next to Quebec and the Maritimes are a bit more culturally integrated with Quebec, like how Ontario is, compared to the West or maybe Newfoundland. I think French has a bit more practical use in NS than it does here. The vacuum of knowledge of French here reminds me a lot of the US.

I'm not sure how you'd objectively prove this with statistics but one statistic you can look at is % who have French as a mother tongue and % who declare that they can speak French in the census in addition to English. Halifax of course isn't anywhere in the "bilingual" ballpark on those metrics but sits noticeably ahead of some other cities. In Canada the baseline is maybe 5-10% declared bilingual, Halifax was over 10%, while I would guess in the US it would be closer to 0, and really bilingual feeling areas are 30-50%+.