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Originally Posted by Acajack
Here in Canada there are plenty of people who live outside Quebec who have surnames like Tremblay and Gagnon who've defiantly told me (often in broken French) that they're every bit as francophone or French Canadian as any Québécois. (Even if they know usually zilch about francophone culture.) So in most cases the reality is that they're mistaken, but who am I to tell them how to feel?
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Well, maybe not "French Canadian", but at the very least, the term francophone has a clear definition -- the line drawn at language, so in a sense if someone literally does not speak French, you can say they're not francophone, so they are mistaken (while French Canadian does not have this clear definition).