At this point in time, is the Quebec fan base still on the coach needing to speak French? I feel that this is more open these days due to how limited we end up with our choices? How important is it today vs past years?
Actually most French Quebecers don't care these days the majority would say " take the best coach available". People under 40 years old don't care at all.
Even younger people care even less about the language thing, they go more and more to English schools and use english all the time.
My opinion is if there was a great choice for a coach from here it would be nice to have but at the moment there is none so like I said I would really prefer having more players from here, including english speaking Quebecers.
If you go to rds.ca tvasports.ca and talk radio here, more and more the people are saying, take the best one you can who cares where he comes from. The language "battle" has been lost a long time ago anyway.