As everybody knows, the situation for anglophones in Quebec is far different than that outside Quebec, for a number of reasons. Clearly francophones outside Quebec are far older and more likely to need health care. Far more francophone seniors are unilingual. For these people the stress or concerns associated with the need to be understood and receive services in one's own language is far greater than for anglophones in Quebec, who have an easier access to English health care services.
There is also the issue of community networks. I know they are much more developed among Quebec anglophones than francophones outside Quebec. The Post-censal survey on the Vitality of the Official Language Minorities asked whether respondents have health problems and who they turn to, apart from their doctors or health care professionals. We noticed, in past studies, that Quebec anglophones make greater use of family networks and personal networks than do francophones outside Quebec. The reality is significantly different for these two groups.
When it comes to fear or anxiety surrounding the ability to receive services in one's own language, we do not have a survey like the one that exists for anglophones in Quebec, but we can assume that if the issue is intimately related to the availability of services in one's own language, it is less of a problem in Quebec than outside Quebec.