Maybe it’s because “people living near Ottawa” are actually people from Québec (Gatineau), and Montreal has a large english community that kinda forces french speaker to speak english. Doesn’t change anything in that english speaker are very much better received in Québec than french speaker are elsewhere in Canada.
If we look at the last census from 2021 : https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/98-200-X/2021013/98-200-x2021013-eng.cfm
Non-metropolitain Québec has 30% of its population bilingual, versus 10% in non-metropolitain Canada outside Québec. Comparing Edmonton (a province capital with a million people) to Chicoutimi, a small town of 70k people is just unfair, and even then, Chicoutimiens are probably more able to speak english than Edmontoniens are to speak french.
Sure, without Montreal and Gatineau, Québec’s stats would drop a bit, but would stay higher than Canada by a large margin, excluding the french part of New-Brunswick, as I said.
Maybe it’s because “people living near Ottawa” are actually people from Québec (Gatineau),
The majority of people living near Ottawa are from the Ontario side. But, bilingual schools are much more common in Ottawa because of the proximity to Quebec.
Non-metropolitain Québec has 30% of its population bilingual
Much higher than the average 9.5% in ROC.
Also, Ottawa had 36.4% of it’s population bilingual in 2021. You can see that that’s very low, right? Especially for the capital of a “bilingual” country.
Meanwhile, Gatineau has 64.6%. If it doesn’t make clear that Québécois are more bilingual than anglo canadians, I don’t know what will. All you have to do is cross a river and bilingualism doubles.
Maybe it’s because “people living near Ottawa” are actually people from Québec (Gatineau), and Montreal has a large english community that kinda forces french speaker to speak english. Doesn’t change anything in that english speaker are very much better received in Québec than french speaker are elsewhere in Canada.
If we look at the last census from 2021 : https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/98-200-X/2021013/98-200-x2021013-eng.cfm
Non-metropolitain Québec has 30% of its population bilingual, versus 10% in non-metropolitain Canada outside Québec. Comparing Edmonton (a province capital with a million people) to Chicoutimi, a small town of 70k people is just unfair, and even then, Chicoutimiens are probably more able to speak english than Edmontoniens are to speak french.
Sure, without Montreal and Gatineau, Québec’s stats would drop a bit, but would stay higher than Canada by a large margin, excluding the french part of New-Brunswick, as I said.
The majority of people living near Ottawa are from the Ontario side. But, bilingual schools are much more common in Ottawa because of the proximity to Quebec.
You can see that that’s very low, right?
Much higher than the average 9.5% in ROC.
Also, Ottawa had 36.4% of it’s population bilingual in 2021. You can see that that’s very low, right? Especially for the capital of a “bilingual” country.
Meanwhile, Gatineau has 64.6%. If it doesn’t make clear that Québécois are more bilingual than anglo canadians, I don’t know what will. All you have to do is cross a river and bilingualism doubles.
Gatineau mentioned 🍁🍁🍁