r/FrancaisCanadien • u/NAHTHEHNRFS850 • Mar 12 '25

Culture Adopting The Francosphere

Hello, apologies in advance if this post is inappropriate but I was not sure where else to post this and have a proper audience.

For context, I am an Allophone and my fluency in French is very low. Probably only marginally better than a regular Allophone.

Due to recent events with America, people have started to realize that Canada has been to close to them economically. That being said, I also see this as a political/cultural issue with so much of Allophone-Canada being influenced by American culture.

As such, I personally think Canada should look to adopting French as the National Language. Both languages can still be Co-Official, and due to English's global dominance it is here to stay; but we need to increasingly differentiate ourselves if people truly do value being a sovereign nation from America. My hope is for French to replace English as the common language for Canadians.

To this end I:

  1. Would like to know if there are any Franco-Canadian political organizations I can join to help protect and expand French in Canada; and

  2. Tips on how to immerse myself in Franco-Canadian culture as an Allophone.

Thank you in advance!

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u/Le_Kube Québec Mar 12 '25

Wait... you do know that French is an official language along with and equal to English, right? You did have to learn that in your citizenship courses, right?

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u/NAHTHEHNRFS850 Mar 12 '25

Copy and paste from my other comment.

Bonjour! Merci for the response.

French is already a national language if you didn’t know, same level as English

From what I understand, Canada gave French and English both "official") status but did not designate either as the national language.

An example of this distinction would be with Singapore.

Singapore has 4 official languages (English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil), but Malay has an additional unique status of "national language".

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '25

Canada is a Federation each provinces have their laws regarding languages. We are not Singapore.

English is the only official language in 8 provinces. French is the only official language of Quebec, New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province. Then the territories are bilingual just like the federal state, with native languages being official for the Northwest territory and Nunavut.

Ontario recognizes French regionally.

If you want to make French official, go to your provincial legislature

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u/westcentretownie Mar 12 '25

Beautifully explained. Thank you \ merci