During our conferences—among other things, because those aren’t our only events—we always have a cross-Canadian delegation of young people, 25 to 35 years old, from the education sector. They are the real linguistic and cultural ambassadors. We all know these young people use social media; they practically invented it. Yes, some things are still done in English, but I’m on a few social media platforms too. What I see is that it’s possible to flaunt one’s French and promote one’s culture, be it francophone, Acadian, Maghrebian or Caribbean, with French as the common element. We’re trying to create spaces to promote it.
Indeed, social media represents a danger, but by setting positive examples and promoting those who dare to flaunt their French, they often become good ambassadors, as I was saying initially.