If supporters may be uneasy, so are some members of the English-speaking minority in Quebec.
He grew up in Montreal suburb Châteauguay, which has a large English-speaking minority.
Concern was also expressed in many quarters concerning the possible exodus by the province's English-speaking minority in the event of independence.
Early on, members of the French-speaking majority and the more privileged English-speaking minority settled in segregated neighbourhoods.
The town has a French speaking majority, with a significant English-speaking minority.
On a recent afternoon, members of the now English-speaking minority served as guides for what became a dispiriting island tour.
However, neither province had a constitutional requirement to protect its French- or English-speaking minority.
English church services are introduced for English-speaking minorities in Welsh-speaking areas.
There has long been white opposition to the Government's policies, but from people in the English-speaking minority.
The province counts six million French-speakers and an English-speaking minority of 700,000.