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In May, Liberal MP and Franco-Ontarian Francis Drouin appeared exasperated by two witnesses invited to a standing committee on Canada’s official languages. The witnesses, an author and a professor, were advocating for the protection of French in Quebec and claimed that studying at an English institution in the province significantly increased the probability of living one’s life in English. Drouin, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie, described their rhetoric as “plein de marde”—or full of shit.
