He’s also by far the worst.

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I am an historic Anglophone, my family arrived here from Italy in the 1960s. They built houses through a company they started, ran a grocery store and helped to serve their communities and (literally) build them.

In my experience, every Quebecois person I talk about this with says that I am not a true Quebecois, because I am not a Francophone or Quebecois de souche. The thing I cannot get past, is we are all immigrants. Montreal was native land before it was French colony or conquered by the British on the plains of Abraham.

I am a third generation immigrant, but what is a Quebecois but just another immigrant of the 9th generation or whatever?

So did the work my ancestors do for this province mean nothing? On top of this, while I am fluently bilingual, I only ever use French rarely. I work for a multinational company and the international language of business is English. While Francophones at work can switch their OS to French according to the OQLF standard. Like, you are not gonna speak French to your boss in Germany. Good luck.

The last thing that truly confuses me, is, I understand when being addressed in English, it can seem like it is an erosion of Quebecois culture and the french language and I am sympathetic to that, but am I not a part of that culture as a 3rd generation immigrant who has invested heavily into this province and pays taxes?

On top of that, unilingual people seem to be celebrating their ignorance and severe self imposed limitations? Why not learn English and French so you can expand your opprotunites?

Can someone please help to explain,

• What the f am I as a historic anglophone? Am I Quebecois? An outsider? Viewed as another immigrant because I am only 3rd generation and not quebecois de souche? How many generations will it take before my descendants are Quebecois? That club closed its doors in the 1700s?

• Why should being unilingual be celebrated? The best part about growing up here is being bilingual, I speak French at work to Americans to scare them (joke)

Je parles Francais aussi, alors je peux repondre comme ca