(CBC) Maram Makhlouf, a Grade 6 student, moved to Quebec from Germany about three years ago and on Thursday she was in a Montreal park with her family celebrating the province’s national holiday, or Fête nationale.
She said the day is “really important to me even if I am not from here.”
But she doesn’t agree with Premier François Legault’s assertion earlier in the day that multiculturalism is a threat to the French language and that “we need to fight against multiculturalism, but not because we are against others.”
Makhlouf is originally from Tunisia where she attended school in French and, she explained, she has been mastering the language while here in Quebec. It’s a language that is easy enough for new immigrants to learn, she said.
