Indeed, the promotion of French is Quebec is instead the promotion of English in every respect. Once again, $100 million is invested annually, through various programs under the Official Languages Act, including to fund anglophone lobby groups that spare no effort in ensuring that everyone in the Quebec health care sector speaks English. If they find a single nurse unable to speak English in a hospital department in Rimouski, which is a 100% francophone municipality, they will demand that this individual learn English so they can provide service in English, in case an anglophone unable to speak French turns up in Rimouski. That's a bit of a caricature, of course, to illustrate my point.
Ultimately, the $3.6 billion that has been invested over all these years to anglicize Quebec through the Official Languages Act has meant that it's now possible, throughout Quebec, to live without needing to learn French. Consequently, immigrants and people from other Canadian provinces who do not speak French and who come to Quebec can spend their lives there without needing to learn it. This way of doing things has helped to normalize the use of English throughout Quebec. We are becoming more and more like the people of Toronto and Ottawa, Canadian cities where it's normal to live in English. This is particularly true in Montreal, and it's expanding to Longueuil and Laval. Gatineau, which is attached to Ottawa, obviously, is another city where the society is subject to anglonormativity.
So, to answer your question, sir, what the federal government is doing in Quebec, is in no way promoting French.
