A global and « hypercentral language » (de Swaan, 2001), English is an international lingua franca and could become the common second language of all speakers of other languages. According to de Swaan, Anglophones tend not to learn other languages. Quebec offers a particular setting where English is at the same time the majority language of the country but a minority language at the provincial level. With data from a survey of two thousand students in English secondary schools in Quebec (Landry, Allard and Deveau, 2013b), the article analyzes the students’ English language experiences and their dispositions toward English as a function of the territorial concentration of Anglophones and makes an empirical verification of a theoretical model of the effects of these linguistic experiences. The article concludes that the same sociolinguistic principles apply to both official linguistic minorities in Canada (English and French), but that the English speaking community is a “minority with an edge” due to the fact that it speaks humanity’s most powerful language.