Shawn Graham knows something that we don’t.

In a recent newspaper article he is quoted as saying, echoing Richard Nixon, “There is a silent majority of New Brunswick parents who want a quality bilingual education for their children that is not being afforded.” The article begins, “A noisy, emotional minority won’t stop changes to New Brunswick’s education system, vows Premier Shawn Graham.”

He is being surprisingly clever here. Notice the deft way he attempts to isolate parents who want early French immersion from other parents. He must be gleeful that they are getting all the attention; he no doubt hopes that his government can slip mandatory French into grade five and no-one will notice until it is too late.

But I think he will find, in the coming days and weeks, that we are not so divided after all.