No. It was my parents' decision. Where I'm from, in Winnipeg, we had French-speaking nuns who promoted the French language to English speakers. My parents, both unilingual anglophones, decided to follow their lead.
It was tough. The schools didn't welcome us with open arms, far from it. Some francophones didn't even want to let us learn French, because they were worried that we'd steal their jobs, assimilate them and so forth.
But the more time that passed and the more progress we made, we became a part of the francophone community more and more. People realized that we, too, could help bilingualism flourish. As I said, I now belong to the French-speaking family. Some still think it's wrong of me to say so, but I disagree.
It's important that my children continue to learn French. As students, they were in immersion programs. And I hope my grandchildren will be as well. Perhaps one day, we'll learn a third or fourth language.