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Article: Franglais spoken ici: enjoying the advantages of living in a distinct society.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Quel dommage! Here and now, I mean. We're a province not so much in crisis as in love with crises, a "politique de crise." The aim of Bill 101, the French Language Charter enacted in 1977, was "francization" -- to make French the "normal and everyday language of work, instruction, communication, commerce and business." That aim has been achieved in substance: 88 per cent of all Quebecers work in French, two-thirds of managers are French, and "the historic link between francophone workers and low income is gone" -- according to the Legault-Plourde report on the status of French, March 1996. But the report hinted at something new: "francophonization." English should not ...