BOMBSHELL! Statistics Canada Discovers Many More Anglos in Quebec!

I've always maintained that the language and demographic statistics bandied about by Quebec nationalists are subject to the most fanciful of interpretation, reflecting outright misrepresentation, more often than not.

Statistics Canada has released a bombshell study that discredits the conventional perception that Anglos make up about 8.5% of the Quebec population.
This figure has been so widely circulated by language nationalists that it has passed into the separatist narrative woven by organizations like the Societé Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

".... the criterion of the first official language spoken (FOLS) offers a more inclusive definition of the Anglophone population. The English FOLS population’s relative share is 11.9% (885,000) excluding those having French and English as a double first official language, and 13.4% (995,000) when half the population with both French and English as FOLS is included. This is a sizable difference, in comparison with the 607,000 persons who have English as their mother tongue." -Statistics Canada

 DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE REPORT HERE

The dark blue bar indicates what has been traditionally defined as anglophones, while the light blue line is more inclusive.
It takes into consideration immigrant stock that have assimilated into the Anglophone community over the years and share English as their first language as opposed to French. Second and third generation Greeks, Italians, Chinese, Portuguese, Jews etc. are now considered bone fide anglophones if they speak English at home and if their children attend English schools legally. Makes sense.
Also, previous calculations considered Anglo/French families as francophone, instead considering 50% of them being English.

Interestingly, it jives rather neatly with what nationalist Mario Bealieu of the SSJB complains about, when he says that 12% of children attend primary and high school in English. These children (except a handful of gatecrashers) all require proper documentation to get into English school and must have a mother, father, sister or brother who attended English school before them.

And so incredibly, there are now 50% more Anglos living in Quebec than yesterday!

In one fell swoop, Anglo ranks have increased from 8.5% to 13.4%, to just under 1 million citizens!

Another interesting statistic is one that Anglo-Quebeckers understand intuitively, that they don't particularly feel like a minority, because they live in communities that have huge Anglo representation.

 The numbers would be adjusted much, much higher if the survey would  discount the eastern part of the island of Montreal, where very few Anglos live.

The study is chock full of interesting tidbits which the intrepid reader can peruse by downloading the file. I'll write more about the study in a further post, but now,  I don't want to be accused of information overload.

Now I'm sure that the report will be widely ignored in nationalist circles, after all it doesn't fit in with their agenda.
What surprises me is why the Anglo press isn't jumping on this story.