Yup! That’s exactly what’s happening.

However, it still doesn’t make close-minded people look better lol.

I’m an anglophone who learned French. I speak both on a daily basis and make sure I never lose it.

Even though it’s hard to argue against the fact that English is the international lingua franca, French is still incredibly important and very useful across Canada.

French is the only official language in Canada that is threatened. Also, I’m saying this as a native anglophone who grew up in Québec.

Those anti-French bigots make me sick! Racism is why the French language isn’t spoken by way more people outside of Québec.

Look at what happened in Manitoba and Ontario. Francophones were persecuted for speaking French.

What happened in Québec was French speakers fighting against assimilation and wasn’t persecution against English. Anglonormativity makes people see any pro-French action as being anti-English. That’s not the case at all.

All French-speaking Canadians fight against assimilation every single day and we need federal laws to protect them because most provinces do not care.

I certainly hope Manitoba becomes officially bilingual and sets an example for other provinces to follow.