Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow

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Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow: Trudeau's Master Plan and How it Can be Stopped was a controversial 1977 book by Jock V. Andrew, a retired naval officer, which alleged that Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's policy of official bilingualism was a plot to make Canada a unilingually francophone country by instituting reverse discrimination against anglophone Canadians.

The book presented a number of alternatives to the "French takeover" of Canada, including reversion to having English as the sole official language with Quebec retaining its previous language rights, conversion of Canada in its entirety to English (even Quebec), and secession of Quebec from Canada with the remainder of Canada consequently adopting English as its sole official language. Andrew favoured the secession of Quebec, arguing that all other alternatives were either exploitative of the anglophone population or politically unstable.

The book inspired the formation of the lobby group Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada.

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