Bilingualism Imbalance
The Fraser Institute just released a report on the amount of money spent annually by both the federal and provincial governments on bilingualism in Canada. The federal government spends $1.5B of the total $2.4B with the remainder spent by the provinces. With slightly more than 600,000 anglophones in Quebec, that province spends $50M annually or about $82 per anglophone. Ontario’s annual bilingualism expenditures of $623M for a francophone population of about 583,000 results in a figure of about $1060 per francophone. The report serves to remind everyone that when it comes to providing services for minority language populations, Quebec should be encouraged to do more for its anglophones. The Fraser Institute could have provided more information on reasons for that discrepancy. db
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