Quebec Society: Impending Doom

Montreal Gazette Dept: Unhappy hardliners want to put a stop to this freedom of choice. Last fall, the Parti Quebecois brought in a proposal calling for Bill 101 to be extended to CEGEPs. The proposal is to be debated at the party's policy convention in April, according to Montreal Gazette. While warning of impending doom for French as the "common language of Quebec society," the study more usefully acknowledged that the students who switched were making a conscious, motivated choice to learn English to get better jobs. They believe that English is the language of increased social mobility, a belief they share with young people around the world. From Russia to Argentina, young people are crowding into English classes, determined to master what has become the language of business and science and those who decide their career or educational prospects would be improved by learning English are switching out of the French school system and into English at the first legal opportunity available, the CEGEP system. In preparation for the convention, the province's biggest teachers' union, the Centrale des syndicats du Quebec, commissioned a study on why francophone and allophone youths are choosing English CEGEPs. As reported in the news.
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