I hope you'll forgive me for answering you in French.
In any event, you've noticed from my accent that I'm from France. There's no sense hiding it. I'm not an immigrant like Valérie Sniadoch, because I'm a former French diplomat who remained in Canada, out of love for the country. In short, my story as an immigrant is a bit different from that of newly arrived people, or traditional immigrants.
French is truly a part of my being. The reason I remained in Canada is that it's possible to speak both French and English. It's worth mentioning that there's some German in my profile too, due to my background in German language studies. I'm trilingual. I think I would really have found something missing if I had arrived in an English-only country. As a diplomat, I've worked in countries where only English was spoken. Being unable to use my mother tongue meant I found something was missing from my everyday life.