First, one has to be realistic about what is possible. It is unrealistic to think that we can avoid this and bring about a significant increase in the real number of francophones in some areas outside Quebec.
There have been many historical changes. Some of the more significant ones have involved contact between and mixing of francophones and anglophones. I think that this has been the most significant trend or phenomenon in several areas in Canada. Before 1960, when those trends were different and when the church played a more dominant role, there was less contact between...