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Originally Posted by Acajack
I fail to grasp how in 2017 the school system in Ottawa (regardless of the board) is still unable to churn out a strong majority of graduates who have at least a passable fluency in both of Canada's fficial languages. (If only to meet the requirements of the city's main employer, the federal government. Which employs far more Ottawans than the City of Ottawa ever will.)
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Neighbourhoods are de facto segregated by language, schools are de jure segregated by language (and therefore so all sorts of extrecirrciular activities), pop culture is in English. If you speak English at home, the likelyhood of having exposure to French (without significant effort) outside of the allocated time in the classroom is pretty low.