Re: ["Montreal is bilingual, poll finds"->34740] (Gazette, Feb. 2).
Jack Jedwab is pushing much too far his analysis of his poll about Montreal being perceived as a "bilingual city." When asked if they agree or not with this statement, people certainly acknowledge that the anglophones of Quebec are very concentrated in Montreal.
But asking immediately after if they agree or not with the opposite statement ( "Montreal should not be a bilingual city") is the equivalent of asking if responders agree that anglophones should not be there. To that, of course people say no.
The right question to ask would instead have been, "Do you think all municipal services and communications in Montreal should be bilingual?" Or, "Do you think making all Montreal municipal institutions officially bilingual would make integration of immigrants more difficult?"
The results of such a poll would give a much more accurate portrait of what is politically feasible than what Jedwab is dreaming of.
Christian Gagnon Montreal
Poll asked the wrong questions
Anglicisation du Québec
Christian Gagnon138 articles
CHRISTIAN GAGNON, ing.
_ L’auteur a été président régional du Parti Québécois de Montréal-Centre d’octobre 2002 à décembre 2005
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