There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a discussion on the subject.  It stands to reason the English minority in Quebec has the greatest diversity because outside Quebec, English is the North American majority.  There are those who are happy to come to Quebec and learn a new language.  On the other hand, I met a fellow in Toronto whose family came to Montreal not knowing their children would be forced to attend French instructional schools, and within 18 months left for Ontario.  I remember a story about 25 years ago of an American who came to Quebec, learned French, put her kids in French schools as required, tried her heart out to integrate and her neighbours NEVER accepted her.  She was so frustrated, disillusioned and every other negative feeling you can imagine that when she finally gave up and returned to the states, she made a point of leaving on June 24, the day of the so-called «fête nationale».  Over that time, there thankfully has been some détente on the subject.  Merchants are much more willing to speak English to customers than they were in the 70s and 80s, and the younger francophones don't feel their language is threatened.  The younger anglophones who survive the French program in the English schools are better prepared for integration, but as a prior message shows, they still face discrimination.  I'm not suggesting Dennis Smith's speech and efforts are meaningless, but how meaningful can they be if the French-speaking majority in Quebec still doesn't accept the English speaking community?  There was quite a tide of rabid racist rhetoric put forth by the Quebec government and other xenophobes of the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, and the recent Bouchard-Taylor Commission on accommodation shows there are still too many hateful bigots still riding the tide.  The poison of the 1995 Referendum has ebbed, the separatist movement since then has ebbed, but there are still more than enough hot spots in that fire that can ignite again at anytime.  That hopefully won't happen, and now perhaps is the beginning of the reforestation of the minority...in Quebec, of course!