I don ' t buy the idiot reporter saying Houston isn ' t letting it get to their head . It ' s definitely in their head . <| sep |> Yep , that ' s exactly my case . I grew up bilingual , went to french school from kindergarten to grade 12 and yet my French today I ' m 27 is terrible . I have to make a point to watch french movies which I never have time for , because work , speak or read in French which takes me twice as long . Otherwise , I ' m not exposed to it outside of the government as it has no greater , cultural bearing on my life . It ' ll only become relevant for me again if I go into direct customer service or get into a managerial position in the government . But by then , my French will probably be more crippled than it is now because there ' s no one to practice with and the rest of Canada simply isn ' t immersed in French culture . I think the government enforces this policy in order to expose people to more French , but if the greater , cultural layer of Canadian society doesn ' t care to maintain it ' s French , then this is pointless and only causes frustration for the people that have to abide by those strict standards to even get a job .