Mandating more French at the university level could be a missing link, Benoît Dubreuil suggests.
“My suggestion is we should look at the overall percentage of teaching in French that happens higher education,” he told hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand in this latest episode of The Corner Booth.
“When you look at the way Bill 101 functions in high school, mechanically it reduces the share of English in high school. And this was something that was noticed already in the year ’70. If we implement this approach also in higher education, it will do exactly the same thing,” Dubreuil explained.
“So the idea I’m trying to promote is maybe we can have a rule that will strengthen the predominance of French, while at the same time recognizing the place of English and giving English institutions the room to develop their mandate.”