"One wonders" is the opening of a rhetorical puff which does not portend well for what follows. In point of fact, there has been francophone Jewish presence in Montreal, especially from North Africa, for at least a century. There has also been the thorny National and other ethnic questions, which will divide any Jewish community. Although Quebec anti-Semitism is diminishing, Peladeau's nationalist think-tank is still named for a notorious anti-Semite, Abbé Groulx, and scads of  ultra-Gaulish and extremist movements are active. Multitudes of people are still willing to support Marois' odious Charter of Exclusion, and her ex-Minister of Secularism still promotes it on his shock-radio network. That would kick professors with kippas out of schools, along with their hijabbed and turbaned colleagues. "Secularism" is now a polite word for "looks French." All ethnic nationalism will divide the Montreal Jews to the horror of any Jewish Parisian.