Language is only one of the issues. The Quebecois see themselves as fundamentally different and _not Canadian_ - they don't celebrate Canada Day for instance (a

Language is only one of the issues. The Quebecois see themselves as fundamentally different and _not Canadian_ - they don't celebrate Canada Day for instance (at least not in a significant capacity). Even if the RoC made French a mandatory part of their education systems, Quebec would remain "different" and generally bitter towards the rest of the country (and vice versa). It has an entirely different culture from the rest of the country and will always have a chip on its shoulder unless French language (specifically _Quebecois French) and culture spread throughout the rest of the country, which will obviously never happen. While it's a difficult problem to solve, I don't think that the forced language laws are the right approach - they just create more discontentment and resentment. Ideally, they would apply these rulings to the province as they see fit, but leave Montreal as an independent district of sorts which operates more similarly to the rest of Canada. This has been proposed many times, but unfortunately never happened.