A comparative study of medical services potential in linguistic minorities languages in British Columbia reveals that non-Francophones French-speaking doctors create a linguistic spinoff that dramatically boosts the potential supply of health and social services in French. This structuring mechanism would apply to other health and social services, elsewhere in Canada and it would be stronger the greater the minority context. Francophone communities must do more to identify, engage and empower francophile professionals and they must develop an innovative equity rationale to unleash the potential for health and human services in French in a multilingual context.