Opinion: Anglophones need not despair — and need not leave Quebec

The question of whether English-speaking Quebecers should stay or go has been raised again, now in a despairing April 11 Gazette column by Toula Drimonis, who recounted the story of a bilingual allophone tired of feeling like an enemy in her own home. It’s a familiar tale.

As a board member at the Quebec Community Groups Network, one of the leading advocacy organizations for English-speakers here, I know the community has taken some big hits in the last few years under the Coalition Avenir Québec government. But we are not doormats, as some have suggested, nor need we despair.

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