My wife is Chinese, my kids speak Mandarin at home with Grandparents & mum sometimes, English with both parents, and French with me only. There are lots of mixed parents I know (with diverse origins from all across the planet, including anglophone parents from Vancouver) with one Francophone parent who love French culture, want their kids to pursue it, and feel really put out by this decision....I think the above post, while containing a grain of truth, is overly cynical in that it over-simplifies parents motivation to continue French (the French that one parent must already be native in, don't forget, these are the legal benificiaries of entering the CSF system!!!)