Conrad Black: It Is Time for Creative Constitutional Thinking on Bilingualism and Quebec’s Place in Canada

Conrad Black: It Is Time for Creative Constitutional Thinking on Bilingualism and Quebec’s Place in Canada
A man wears a Quebec flag during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day event in Montreal on June 24, 2022. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
Conrad Black
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Commentary
A recent countrywide poll on the status of bilingualism has attracted a good deal of comment on the relatively small minority of Canadians outside Quebec who consider it to be an important objective. Much attention has been paid to the fact that the portion of Quebecers who believe bilingualism to be important, 83 percent, is almost twice the number answering positively to the same question in the other nine provinces, 43 percent.
Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Author
Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.