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Originally Posted by kool maudit
Very "old Anglo" lede here, Josh... what about the massive immigration from France, for one thing?
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Not sure this is the right thread to discuss this in a fulsome way, but I was thinking the other day about Francophonie immigration in general.
Montreal at the moment gets 40-50,000 immigrants a year. I'd estimate about two thirds of them already speak French: people from France, but also from Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Haiti, Senegal, Congo, etc. Also people who went to the Lycée Français as a child in Cairo, Pondicherry, Hanoi, etc. and who use that as an "in" to get into a first world country.
That's probably 25,000 people a year, or 250,000 in a decade. Who will very predominantly settle on Montreal island.
So when I say that Montreal is fast turning into a major global hub for the international Francophonie, this is what I am talking about.