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Isn't English compulsory as a second language in school in Québec though? If not that's pretty crazy, even with the federalism!
Yes, it's mandatory every year of elementary and high school in Quebec. Some kids are good at it, and some are not so good. Some people learn a bit in school and then like second languages sometimes do for other people around the world, it lapses if they don't use it much. Depending on the job you do here, you don't really need to use English that much in everyday life. All of this exists on the North American continent, in a majority English-speaking country, in some cases in cities and towns less than an hour from the border with the mighty United States of America.
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Are you sure people didn't just say they were bilingual in the case they were fluent-ish?
This is certainly true for some people who report they speak "French" only.
On the other hand, in my experience there is also a large number of people who *overestimate* how bilingual they are, so this nullifies a large part of the first group as well.
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Perhaps a larger number could go to Toronto and pull through?
For ordering food in a restaurant and filling the car at a garage ("pump number two, 50 dollars of regular please") perhaps. But for extended conversations... not so much.
The Internet has it that the far left dispersed to their holes in peace, not trying to provoke the police to gain bad publicity as being merely rowdy hooligans. Estimates of the anarchists/communists: 3000, nazis (including Swedes and Norwegians): 200-300, alt-right: 2000, randoms: 2000.
9 arrests so far, down from over 300 last year.
Lots of noise and attention (and also police deployments, I guess) for very few people.
Finally after much ebb and flood this house has to go. It's in such a bad condition that it can't be repaired. This is what they're building instead:
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BEHOLD!
Like it, eh? The building in the background is being constructed at the same time.
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