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As a monolingual I agree with making the province bilingual. We should guarantee more services and more education opportunities to more Canadians.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey David Eby, please join this fine gentleman.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In BC, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have roughly equal numbers to French speakers, and there are few French speaking enclaves, unlike Manitoba. If you're in Richmond, retail signs and ads are often Chinese first, etc.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

pentalingual BC 🇭🇰🇨🇳🪯⚜️!!!

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

However French is the second most spoken language in BC.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, by .25%. Mandarin is .3% less at 6.36% -- splitting hairs.

I am in favour of franco-anglo bilingualism, but would like a postcolonial and regional approach.

I fully expect salish languages to become more popular as well in the next couple of generations.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

We definitely need to fund more indigenous language programs.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I agree since english needs to face more competition.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 days ago