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Of options listed I chose English. Although I'm not sure I'd precisely say English should be official, but I do think their should be efforts to teach everyone English and it's best if there is a common language. (I might make exceptions for American Indian reservations as they're official "nations within the nation")
where it gets ridiculous is that every province in the country has signs in english and french EXCEPT Quebec. Quebec has signs only in French. There are towns in Alberta, Newfoundland, etc that have absolutely no french-speaking people but are still required to post all street signs in french. But for some reason Quebec, which has a huge english speaking population only has signs in french.
Not true. The only places outside of Quebec that have a significant number of bilingual English and French signs are New Brunswick (where all highways signs are bilingual) and certain parts of Ontario generally close to the border with Quebec in the east and north which have bilingual highway signs as well.
99.99% of cities and towns outside of Quebec have all of their signs only in English. In fact, even in bilingual New Brunswick, most city and town signs are in English only in mainly English cities like Fredericton and Saint John. Moncton (40% French-speaking) has bilingual signs, and some totally French-speaking towns like Caraquet have them all in French.
And there are towns in Quebec like Shawville in the Pontiac and Westmount and Hampstead in the western part of Montreal that have either English only or bilingual signs.
It is preposterous to suggest as you did that "There are towns in Alberta, Newfoundland, etc that have absolutely no french-speaking people but are still required to post all street signs in french."
No such requirement exists on municipalities and usually the only French sign you will see in a 100% English Canadian town is on the post office, because it is federal. The same applies 100% French-speaking towns in Quebec, where the only English you will usually see is on the post office sign.
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