33 Air Canada CEO bullied into retirement for not speaking in French after crash. CTV News frames it as "Relief in Quebec". He spent 600 hrs taking French lessons but it wasn't enough for them (archive.is) posted 66 days ago by YesMovement 66 days ago by YesMovement +33 / -0 54 comments share 54 comments share save hide report block hide replies
1/5th, not 1/3rd. And only 18% of Canadians are fluent in both languages.
7.8 million are native French speakers. Which is roughly 20% of the population. So if we subtract the immigrant population we actually have around 27% native French speakers amongst native Canadians. According to the 2021 census at least.