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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I'm not seeing what we [Anglos] can put on the table any more.
Quebec is in charge of its own affairs. It sets immigration policies, it runs its own pension plan, it even has a ministry of international relations (foreign affairs). It has cultivated a diverse economic base with French-speaking Quebecois occupying every rung of power all the way up to the C-suite and commanding and controlling all of this economy out of Montreal.
You're a nation state in all but name. Just set up a central bank and a military and you're good to go.
We can't even do anything about the erosion of French in the ROC. It's not up to Ottawa to tell millions of Fortnite players to chat with each other in French or to tell INSEAD that they should run their Executive MBA in French or set up a French language medical journal of the calibre of the New England Journal of Medicine or The Lancet.
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Ideas:
1. Make Northeast Ontario a bilingual province (or, for the time being, a devolved region).
2. Make Ottawa (Ontario-part) a bilingual territory.
3. Devolve economic immigration, a la Quebec, to Northeast Ontario, Ottawa (the territory), and New Brunswick. Require that they each set up both English and French language streams for economic immigration. Require that they gradually raise the French migrant intake with the goal of eventually reaching parity, or close to it, in terms of English & French streams.
4. In Anglo-Canada, ensure (or work toward ensuring) that every family has the choice to send their child to a French immersion school. Encourage Anglo provinces to aim to ensure that every student in Anglo Canada graduates high school with intermediate French language skills.
5. Show Radio-Canada programming (much better) on CBC, with English subtitles.
6. Encourage Quebec to increase its economic immigration quota, including by helping foot the bill for services that economic immigrants typically use upon arriving as newcomers.
7. Set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.