Montreal feels less Quebecois, and that's a problem

Yves-François Blanchet threw a wrench into the mix by asserting that Montreal was a less and less Québécois city.

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Of course, he put it differently, saying that we were jointly headed for two Quebecs.

First, the deeply French-speaking regions.

Then Montreal, and more precisely the greater Montreal area, where the French-speaking majority is becoming a minority, and English is replacing French as the common language.

Mayor Plante's desire to dedicate a district of the city to the French-speaking world illustrates this situation in an absurd way. The French truth becomes a folk spectacle, designed both for “native” Quebecers visiting the city and for tourists who are assured of a hello-hi-free atmosphere.

Minority

In Montreal, French-speaking Quebecers are invited to become a community among others – but a community that will allow us to fight openly, to the extent that it considers itself the people it refers to, unwilling to consent to him. Index decline in happiness.

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There will come a time – indeed, we are already here – when insisting on being served in French in Montreal will be seen as a gesture of intolerance. This demographic shift has long been denied: the simple fact that it equates with racism and conspiracy.

In recent years, reality has reclaimed its rights.

Thus, in 2019, Gérard Bouchard, one of the most important intellectuals of the post-referendum decade, recognized this: “A capital transformation is underway in the Montreal region, where a new majority-minority relationship is emerging, but it is reversed: in fact the former “minorities” are becoming the majority. Demographic data, again, bear this out. In the greater Montreal area, 40% of the population is now made up of immigrants. For the island, people with a mother tongue other than French have already been in the majority for some time.

It is clear.

We frown when we remember that Gérard Bouchard was one of the intellectuals who promoted the vision of society that made possible this demographic shift that he worries about today.

But back to politics.

The disappearance of nationalist parties in Montreal, except in a few rare places, corresponds to the symbolic expulsion of French-speaking Quebecers from the metropolis. They still have rights, but they have lost power.

Some say, despondently: Let's give up on Montreal as it is – the city is lost anyway. However, on the scale of history, this would be a capitulation.

Gérard Bouchard

Instead, we must recapture Montreal.

It cannot be done without cracking down on mass immigration, redefining the funding of university institutions, imposing a 101 bill on colleges, abandoning Canadian multiculturalism altogether, and achieving independence.

But you already know that.