English is my mother tongue. My father was Ernest Napoléon Castonguay, and we never spoke a word of French together. I called his mother, ma mère, as I thought that was her name, like Florence or Edith. I called her ma mère until I was 20 years old, when I realized that meant ma mère, okay? I am that much of an anglo.
I think a territorial type of bilingualism fits Canadian reality. When I say territorial bilingualism, I mean not only bilingual districts to support francophone minorities—