We would be wise to keep our eyes open to see where Quebec separatists and Islamic terrorists join to harm Jewish people - most of whom - but not all - speak primarily English.
Does anyone know why Jewish people in Quebec speak mostly English? I'll tell you.
When we were children in Montreal in the 1940's, the French school system was Catholic, and the nuns and priests didn't want Jews. They sloughed us off on the "other" system - the "default" system - the Protestant school system, which was mostly English speaking. If the Protestants didn't want the Jewish children either, they had no choice but to let us in.
We worked very hard and did very well in school. We learned French starting in grade three, but we studied in English and we spoke English with our friends and in business and at home - along with Yiddish and French and many other languages.
History has a long arm. But does anyone teach this to the current generation?
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