ok, she has a point - english speaking quebeckers should learn french - but there is another side to the story.
the lower class english speaking community, especially visible minority english, are a growing segment in the society that no one seems to care about or recognize. my patience for sheilagh finger pointing at them within this context is pretty low. here is an article i wrote on the issue. the real issue seems to be a lack of public service job and power sharing. read it here:
http://whoweare.ca/blog/2009/07/why-i-am-leaving-quebec/
also, statistically the idea that the main barrier to employment is the learning of french has been debunked. the english speaking afri-canadian community in nearby little burgundy had a special language school put into the community to help them learn french. bilingualism went way up but the astronomical unemployment rate stayed exactly the same over time. various other cases proved the same finding.
like i said she has a point, but she is drawing false conclusions and perhaps, by using the opportunity to finger wag instead of enlighten, even further alienating the voice of the irish of pointe saint charles.
