Flavio Marques

Parti Quebecois Dept: "I want to get better, so I can stay here and go to school," the 24-year-old from Portugal says in halting but functional French before heading into class at a community centre near his work, according to CBC. His back-and-forth battle between French and his first language touches on an issue central to the province's Parti Quebecois government. The PQ campaigned on a plan to encourage the use of French not only in public, but at home and at work too and since arriving in Montreal a year ago, Flavio Marques has had high hopes of remaining in Quebec which is why he spends so much of his free time these days in French class. Ironically, even in Montreal, Marques finds himself with limited options for real-world French immersion: he speaks his mother tongue most of the time at his job at a popular Portuguese rotisserie, as well as with the relatives who helped him to settle here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.