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Originally Posted by big T
As for the French at home stat, assuming that is all due to immigration (I don’t really see how established Francophones would suddenly turn Anglo, save for specific exceptions), I think the 2nd generation argument remains valid. Loi 101 is a powerful tool. We’re in an immigration glut right now, so I continue to think this is heavily impacting the numbers, but we all know it’s unsustainable. I’m thinking this normalizes again when we snap out of this record-breaking insanity.
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Well, these are the figures for the non-immigrant population of the province of Québec:
Language most spoken at home:
2011 >> 2021
- French: 88.7% >> 88.0%
- English: 9.6% >> 11.8%
The total number of non-immigrants living in Québec whose most spoken language at home is English rose from 645,435 in 2011 to 812,170 in 2021. That's a +2.32% growth of that population
per year (the sort of population growth rates found in Africa). The non-immigrant population whose most spoken language at home is French rose by just +0.22% per year (which is the sort of rate found in the slow growers of Europe such as Germany with its catastrophic fertility rate that immigration fails to compensate entirely).
Now if we break up the figures even more (and again keep in mind these refer only to the
non-immigrants), it's not so much the people for whom English is the ONLY language most spoken at home that grew the most (although this group still grew by +0.99% per year, which is akin to the fastest growing parts of Europe, such as Switzerland). The fastest growing group was those for whom both English and French are the most spoken languages at home (this group grew by a crazy +15.8%
per year between 2011 and 2021). This suggests that many native Francophones of Québec start using English as much as French at home. As we saw in Louisiana, that was the first stage of the process before ditching French altogether and keeping only English at home.