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DERVILA COOKE Ironically, given the rhetoric of accommodation of beliefs and practices from the non-majority population in recent years in Québec, Akos describes some immigrants’ view of French as “la langue pour accommoder les Canadiensfrancais” [a language to placate French-Canadians].”° Yet in the same article Farouk is quoted as saying that French is a language for all. He declares that “la défense de la langue française, ce n'est pas juste le lot des Canadiensfrançais indépendantistes, descendants du chanoine Groulx”. [The defense of the French language is not only the remit of sovereignist French Canadians who see themselves as descendants of the nationalist Catholic priest and historian Lionel Groulx].”' If an individual only uses French in in a utilitarian way, or indeed rejects the language, it would seem difficult for that individual to function as part of the body politic and of democratic society through French. Godbout’s film suggests that full participation necessitates a sense of being part of Québec and of interaction with the different elements of the population on a regular and egalitarian basis. Godbout might call this “integration”, but I prefer interaction, or Hirsch’s term of interconnection. Commenting early on in the film that the hundreds of thousands of young people of immigrant extraction in Québec “often” do not share the culture of the Francophone population, Godbout ends by noting Québec’s “politically uncertain” future and that a day may come where the “Génération 101” may be called on to define the “new identity” of “the Québec nation”. He seems rather pessimistic, as the importance of a shared “language”, “culture” and “history” is not perceived by all in Québec society. However, with teachers such as those depicted in his documentary, and helped by socio-politically minded “passeurs” such as those given a platform by Godbout, immigrants and immigrant students are off to a good start. BIBLIOGRAPHY ALLEN, Dawn, Who’s in and Who’s out: Language and the Integration of New Immigrant Youth in Quebec, International Journal of Inclusive Education, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2006), 251-263. ALOISIO, Anita, Les Enfants de la Loi 101, Montreal, Virage, 2007. BERTUCELLI, Julie, La Cour de Babel, Paris, Les Films du poisson, 2017. BRABANT, Annick, Immigrer et s’intégrer a l’école: l’histoire des classes d’accueil, Ville.Montreal.gc.ca, 24 October 2018, https://ville.montreal. qc.ca/memoiresdesmontrealais/immigrer-et-sintegrer-lecole-lhistoiredes-classes-daccueil (accessed 15 December 2019). 20 Cauchy, La Loi 101. 2° Ibid. * 186 °
