Whoaaa easy there tiger...unless you're Aboriginal/First Nations/whatevertheterm-du-jour is, we're ALL immigrants from some point in time!! Not disparaging immigrants - positing a possible reason for less than Queen's English...relax...those high horses hurt when you fall...
I don't speak French, je comprend un petit peut, I wish I knew more - but I never had the opportunity to truly learn, nor will I apologize for that. Sorry, but growing up on the West Coast means the whims of Ottawa and la Belle Province (probably screwed that up too! lol) didn't mean a rat's rear end - other than a new language to try on the cereal box nothing much changed. Immersion became trendy and the kids still couldn't converse in French a year beyond graduation...use it or lose it... Besides Quebec ain't exactly the most bilingual place around...try putting up some English signs in Quebec City and see how far you get...Oh Canada...
I still say forced multi-culturalism is a cynical disaster. Funny thing, the ethnic groups with the strongest sense of identity tend to be the ones with the least government funding...weird, n'est pas?
It's all moot to me now, I'm overseas and will return only to retire and live off my offshore savings, safe from the rapacious Canuck taxman...
peace.