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Book Review: Metrolingualism: Language in the city

faced by both official language communities and indeed emphasize how much they have in common within a Canadian context. But it is Fraser who comes closest to offering a broad perspective on what is essentially an ageing population and atrophying community relative to pre-1970s conditions. The Language Commissioner makes a plea for investment in youth, in education, and in a stronger federal–provincial partnership to sustain the official English language community for which he has formal responsibility. He reminds English-speaking Quebec that “your culture continues to thrive, with internationally recognized artists and authors. Your educational institutions continue to survive, attracting students from all over Canada and the world. And yet, you must work to keep up the momentum” (p. 392). This is a stimulating volume that seeks to address and unpack the twin dimensions of Anglophone community life in Quebec, namely, that its members remain part of a privileged subsection of the Canadian population and that they inhabit an institutional infrastructure and sociolegal environment that is the envy of their counterparts among the Official Francophone communities out with Quebec. The contributors have demonstrated a great deal of internal variability within the Anglophone community, have made a robust defense of its long-term vitality, which it is argued is important for both Quebec and Canada, and have made prescient recommendations by which such vitality can be promoted, protected, and regulated. Perhaps the most significant recommendation in this regard is made by the editor when he justifies his priority action as selecting the treatment of Anglophones and their institutional support as a benchmark to be used to bolster the further development of Francophone minorities across Canada. Whether it is a win-win stratagem for both official language communities only time will tell, but at least this volume provides ready data and relevant arguments for such an attempt to be made.