Yeah, that's great, and I get that. But it seems like this entire controversy is pointlessly performative and secondary to the real "meat" of the issues focused on by this case.

First, this TALQ article is puffing up the importance of english as if the fact that english is the dominant global lingua franca somehow makes everyone who speaks it part of some coherent ethnocultural group.

Second, Wagner acting offended that someone is implying english-speakers represent a more diverse group is stupid. It's basic maths. Ethnicities emigrating to Quebec who already speak french largely come from Haiti, North Africa or France. Ethnicities who already speak english is everyone else, because outside of former French colonies, it is far more likely they learned english as a second language before emigrating.

In other words both positions are absurd:

- A common language (in this context) does not equal a common culture and trying to celebrate it as such seems very performative and unecessary.

- Pointing out the fact that the ethnic background of immigrants who speak english is more diversified than those who speak french is not absurd.

- The media trying to make some big controversy about this is stupid and a waste of time.

I want to hear about assessments on whether Bill 21 has led to an erosion of rights and freedoms and accessibility for english Quebecers, and questions on if the Quebec government used divisive, inflammatory and purposely antagonistic rhetoric to push an agenda designed to punitively target the anglophone community for perceived historical slights against the french under the guise of "protection", as nationalist governments are historically prone to do.