The institution of policies that made Wallonia and Flanders officially unilingual regions greatly reduced migration between those two regions, but there is considerable migration within language regions.
In 1930 the Belgian government acquiesced somewhat to the pressure, making Flanders and Wallonia legally unilingual regions, with only Brussels and its surroundings remaining bilingual.
The Flemings, after gradually gaining greater numerical and political strength, eventually forced reforms that established Flanders as a unilingual Flemish-speaking area, provided Flemings with access to political and economic power, and established a degree of regional autonomy.
Cunneyworth is the team's first unilingual coach since 1971, when Al MacNeil led the team to the Stanley Cup but was demoted for clashing with his French-speaking players.
He was also criticized for dismissing an assistant, Perry Pearn, before a game this season; firing the head coach, Jacques Martin, on a game day; hiring the unilingual Randy Cunneyworth to replace Martin, causing an outcry across Quebec; and trading forward Mike Cammalleri during a game in January.
General Manager Pierre Gauthier fired an assistant, Perry Pearn, hours before an October game; he dismissed Coach Jacques Martin in December, replacing him with the unilingual Randy Cunneyworth, igniting a Francophone backlash; he traded wing Mike Cammalleri during a January game, having him removed from the lineup after the second period.
Those credentials made it easy for General Manager Pierre Gauthier to hire Cunneyworth as a quick fix, but it seems neither he nor other Canadiens' executives expected the outrage at the hiring of a unilingual coach.
For the impatient, socially awkward, unilingual traveler — in other words, for many of us — meeting locals can sometimes seem like a daunting proposition.
His father was pur laine Québécois, an ambitious Montreal lawyer from a long line of unilingual peasant-farmers.
I've given my book away to a director, producers, and cast; to dozens of translators whose skills this unilingual moron has to take on faith; and to countless readers, who have breathed their own life into the story and brought their own analyses to bear on the characters.
