POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Napoleonic Code, Quebec Act, Maurice Duplessis
11 Dec 2015
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The francophone share of canada"s population has nudged down to its all time low of 22% La revanche des berceaux the high birth rate that for a close to a century enabled french canada to maintain its numerical strength against english canada. Montreal was expected to be about equally divided between. Anglophones and francophones by the early 21st century. Key factor is shifting the linguistic balance of quebec was immigration. Immigration became the sole contributor to provincial population growth by the 1960s, given that the provincial fertility rate had fallen below the replacement level. The rapid expansion of french immersion schools since the. 1980s, particularly in ontario which accounts for half of all immersion students in canada, is responsible for most of the increase in bilingualism. Receptive bilinguals people who are capable of responding to. French communications, but do not themselves initiate conversations in french, consume french languages media or seek out opportunities to live in their acquired second language.
