Anglos of Montréal, are you really as mistreated as you say you are?

I should preface this by saying that I’m English Canadian. I have a very English-sounding name, yet I am fluently bilingual.

I do not live in an English-speaking neighbourhood, I work primarily in French, and my friends/partner are francophone.

While I do spend most of my days speaking French, I have plenty of friends who only speak English. When we go out, we will often only speak English.

I have never encountered any negative situation. In fact, I find it the opposite. I find most Francophones willingly speak English almost as a way to prove that they speak English.

In fact, the negative experiences I seem to have are from other bilingual anglophones. We could be in a group of 5 Francophones, I speak in French to the other anglophone in the group, and the anglophone will refuse to speak to me in French.

Not to mention the Westmount and West Island Anglos always try to bad mouth Francophones to me because they think I’m unilingual. One person tried to hook me up with some Anglo guy and when I met my current francophone partner she told me “good luck with that. I’d never date a francophone”.

So I’m just curious where this reputation comes from that Francophones are unkind and blatantly refuse to speak English to anglophones?