Opinion: New statistics on income and language shatter old stereotypes

There was a time in our history when French Canadians perceived themselves as condemned to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. They had a saying, “Nous sommes nés pour un petit pain,” we are born for a small crust of bread. But those days are now folklore.
When the Parti Québécois, back in 1977, announced in a white paper the radical Charter of the French Language, it justified the restrictions to be imposed on English in part by the relative poverty of Frenc