The Decline of the English School System in Quebec
Description:... Quebec: 1) the decline of Francophone Numerous sociolinguistic and minorities in the rest of Canada; 2) the demolinguistic analyses are devoted to drop in the birthrate of the Quebec assessing the effectiveness of language Francophone population from one of the laws and regulations designed to enshrine highest to one of the lowest in the the ascendancy of French while Western world; 3) immigrant c [...] In turn 'strength in numbers' distribution component includes such legitimises the institutional support of variables as the numeric concentration of language communities in domains such as speakers in various parts of the territory, education, health care, the police and the proportion of minority group speakers military, the judiciary, the public relative to that of other linguistic groups, admi [...] We could make the same argument as regards the marginal impact of Bill 104 and the proposed Bill 103 in significantly increasing the number of pupils in the French school system and in ultimately boosting the population of the Francophone adult majority in the Province. [...] Note that and English school systems which in 2002, the year of adoption of Bill 104, the determines the total budgets allocated by number of Anglophone pupils in the English the Ministry of Education to the linguistic school system in the Province was 76,818 school boards. [...] By the time of the adoption of Bill 104 in 2002, the number of Since the adoption of Bill 104, the number Allophones pupils in the English school of Francophones attending English schools system for Quebec as a whole was 22,199, in Quebec increased from 19,505 in 2002 to an enrolment which dropped slightly to 22,101 in 2007, an addition of 2,596 pupils, 22,057 in 2007 representing a loss of 142 ma.
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