The Future of French Language Universities in Ontario
Before the Ford government came to office in Ontario, the province had exactly zero French-language universities. This might seem strange in a province with something close to a million French speakers, a third of whom use it as a first language. After all, Manitoba – which has a similarly-sized francophone population in proportional terms – can maintain Université de St. Boniface, so why couldn’t Ontario? The answer is that at the time Ontario had two very good bilingual universities in







