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Re: by throwawaysleep on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:52PM (#42590341)
Quebec would be a economic powerhouse if it weren’t French. One of the many reasons why.
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Re: by fijiaarone on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:26PM (#42591767)
Fewer than 25% of people in Quebec speak French fluently. Less than 1/10 use French as their primary language.
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Re: by wasabi991011 on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:47PM (#42592203)
This does not sound remotely close to my experience. According to StatCan, about 6 million out of 8 million have French as a maternal language, and the same is true for the language spoken at home. Even more have French as the "language the most spoken at home".

Source here: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/pr...

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Re: by SalmoShalazar on Saturday January 04, 2025 @01:16AM (#42592851)
…Have you ever even been to Quebec? If you go anywhere outside of Montreal, you’re lucky if anyone even speaks english. It’s all heavily French.
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