Juno News - May 27, 2022


Does a Conservative leader need to speak french？


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3 minutes

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183.90192

Word count

575

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38

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Misogyny

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In this episode, we talk about the lack of progress in Canada's French-speaking population and why it's time to learn to speak French. We also talk about what it means to be bilingual in Canada and how important it is to learn French.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Conservatives don't win in Quebec. That's the reality. Conservatives currently have 10 seats
00:00:03.940 in the province of Quebec. The most that they've won in recent elections was 12, and that was in
00:00:09.600 2015, right? So no matter what conservatives do, they have a very, very, very, very small footprint
00:00:15.940 in Quebec. The majority of people in Quebec don't like the conservatives, won't vote for the
00:00:20.480 conservatives. They have fundamental differences in terms of their worldview and their values.
00:00:24.780 And so the fact that we waste so much time, the conservatives waste so much time trying to make
00:00:28.880 inroads, trying to win in Quebec, participating in the spectacle that we saw in the debate last
00:00:33.400 night, it doesn't help, right? It doesn't help. And the reality is the majority of Canadians don't
00:00:38.280 speak French. Only 22% of Canadians have French as their first language. It's about just a little
00:00:44.460 under 8 million. And then another 6 million are bilingual. So Canadians from the rest of the
00:00:50.140 country who have learned to speak French or have French families, a lot of those people live in
00:00:54.940 other sort of bilingual areas, like Francophones in Ontario or in New Brunswick. So just a few more
00:01:02.000 stats on the official languages according to the census. So you can go through and you can see by
00:01:08.740 province what percentage of the population is bilingual. So Newfoundland, 5%, PEI, 12%, Nova Scotia,
00:01:17.140 10%, New Brunswick, 33%. You know, those aren't provinces, again, where conservatives do very well or win
00:01:23.920 very well. But 11% of people in Ontario are bilingual. And then once you start to go west,
00:01:28.880 those numbers really drop off, right? 8%. Saskatchewan, 4.7% are bilingual. Alberta, 6.6%,
00:01:35.960 British Columbia, 6.8%. So really, there's not a lot of need out west to learn French. It doesn't
00:01:41.500 seem like an important language. I mean, I grew up in British Columbia. And I remember in grade 11,
00:01:47.360 they started offering Spanish at my school. And most of the students got out of French and started
00:01:52.900 taking Spanish because, I don't know, maybe they thought it was more useful or a language that
00:01:57.380 they would actually use in the world. French isn't that useful. Wes, the point that JJ McCullough
00:02:02.780 makes, a journalist who I've talked about this topic on the show with before, he talks about how
00:02:08.020 the only real reason that you could learn French is if you're forced into a situation where you have
00:02:14.140 to speak French, right? It's not just a choice. You can go take some courses at a local community
00:02:18.360 college and learn French. The way that you're going to learn French is if you're in a situation where
00:02:23.400 you must speak French to survive, you have no other option. And the reality is in Western Canada,
00:02:28.280 that's never the situation that you're going to confront unless you go and choose to like spend a
00:02:33.400 spend a year abroad or go spend some time in a very kind of French part of Quebec, not Montreal, but outside.
00:02:40.360 And then daち rehab continues to be open, so again we'll contact pubanatize.
00:02:47.400 Let's get to that first and this is pretty helpful.
00:02:51.320 It's easy to do.
00:02:55.800 And the menu while you're going to try,
00:02:57.400 it's really soft.
00:02:58.920 Look at this space in London,
00:03:00.440 so let's see if you move on a second and you give us 0.67
00:03:03.280 that space apart and we don't have enough space in that space.