Growing up, my father told me that Quebec bashing was a frequent occurrence travelling inside Canada. Frog jokes for example. (He was military and lived everywhere for a decade in the 70) also inside Quebec before French Canadian got a better access to university education it was mostly French speaking workers exploited by English speaking bosses.

Those divisions fueled resentment and the independence movement or at least that was my father’s thesis. I, myself, never felt a division along those line.

Now that Trump gives us a reason to fight together for a society where healthcare, education and human dignity having value independent of one’s ability to hold a job, I expect a united Canada for a while.

You don’t need to be fluent in French but showing that you care to learn a bit shows enough respect to open the door for more collaboration.