11-20-2014, 12:19 PM
(11-20-2014, 11:41 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(11-20-2014, 10:54 AM)plam Wrote: I think Canadians just don't migrate around the country nearly as much. It's a bit more provincial that way.
That would be particularly true of francophone Quebeckers.
Re language politics, wouldn't you expect things to perk up again, if it's politically useful, when Peladeau wins the next provincial election?
By the way, Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge is 1.4% mother tongue French or English+French. So I guess the number from the top of my head may have come from there.
Quebec anglos and allos are everywhere. A lot of my (English) high school class is not in Montreal now (hi!) Ottawa seems pretty popular, along with some in Seattle and presumably some in Silicon Valley, although actually I can't think of any.
47% of Quebecois claim English or English + French spoken. Not sure how many would be comfortable working in English, though. But that should still be a substantial number of people who could move. As a percentage, though, it's not that high if you dilute it in the population of Ontarians. (94% of Quebecois claim French or French+English spoken).
As for Peladeau: it's one thing to be a billionaire and run a media company. It's another thing to win the leadership of the PQ, and that's much less challenging than running the PQ ("fractious"). And then there's the getting elected thing. So I think there are a lot of barriers to Peladeau being elected premier. I could be wrong though.