Canada's population estimates: Record-high population growth in 2022

[New Brisavoine]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Even in the face of sustained levels of high immigration in recent years, the French language hasn't really diminished in either its usage or its institutional dominance.

That's not what the census figures show.

Stats for the province of Québec:

Mother tongue:
2011 >> 2021
- French: 79.7% >> 77.8%
- English: 9.0% >> 10.0%

Language most spoken at home:
2011 >> 2021
- French: 82.5% >> 81.0%
- English: 11.7% >> 13.2%

Main language at work:
2011 >> 2021
- French: 87.6% >> 85.3%
- English: 17.4% >> 19.5%

Stats for the island of Montréal:

Mother tongue:
2011 >> 2021
- French: 50.2% >> 49.3%
- English: 19.1% >> 20.9%

Language most spoken at home:
2011 >> 2021
- French: 56.0% >> 55.0%
- English: 27.6% >> 30.0%

Main language at work:
2011 >> 2021
- French: 70.8% >> 67.4%
- English: 38.9% >> 42.1%

These insane levels of immigration are not sustainable a- for Québec (as the census figures show; even with far more Francophone immigrants than in the past, the French language is declining), and b- for the stability of Canada regarding the Québec separatist issue, because the rest of Canada receives more immigrants proportionally than Québec, so the higher the level of immigration, the more the province of Québec declines as a percentage of Canada's total population, and this will open all sorts of cans of worms that you can't even imagine (when Québec falls below 15% of Canada's population, combined with a French language falling below 75% of Québec's population, I let you imagine the sort of existential angst this will trigger in Québec politics...).