the report recommend the government to give quebec a policy in which the general objective would be: "to make french the common language of quebecers, that is to say, a language which, being known to everyone, could be used as a communication tool in contact situations between francophones and non-francophones." thus far, english, the language of the majority in canada and north america, the language of socioeconomic promotion for most workers, had been playing a much greater role than french as an interethnic language inside quebec.