04-04-2019, 09:38 AM
Full disclosure: I am neither Anglophone nor Francophone but I'm most comfortable communicating in English.
I really like the idea put forward by the francophone association in Kitchener-Waterloo (Association des Francophones de Kitchener-Waterloo). They started a programme called Bonjour Welcome because they would like to see a bit more bilingualism in KW. I can understand why. Living in most parts of Canada (including Québec) it would be hard to tell that Canada is officially a bilingual nation.
A new French language high school is to open this fall in Kitchener. That's great but where would the graduates speak French? The only French I see around here are signs in federal government buildings. And nowhere else.
You can read the article from the Record here.
I really like the idea put forward by the francophone association in Kitchener-Waterloo (Association des Francophones de Kitchener-Waterloo). They started a programme called Bonjour Welcome because they would like to see a bit more bilingualism in KW. I can understand why. Living in most parts of Canada (including Québec) it would be hard to tell that Canada is officially a bilingual nation.
A new French language high school is to open this fall in Kitchener. That's great but where would the graduates speak French? The only French I see around here are signs in federal government buildings. And nowhere else.
You can read the article from the Record here.