I think he means that because these francophones do not participate in English Canadian political dialogue that means that Francophones, by virtue of not speaking English, cannot possibly partake in political dialogue.
What can I say? The man's an idiot.
"Scientist: The environmental barrier had been removed but we'd hit another: the language barrier. The penguins could not speak English and were therefore unable to give the answers. This problem was removed in the next series of experiments by asking the same questions to the penguins and to a random group of non-English-speaking humans in the same conditions.
(Cut to the professor and his team now surrounding a group of foreigners who are standing in a pool looking bewildered.)
Professor: What is the next number? 2, 4, 6? (pause)
Swedish Person: Hello?
(Cut back to the scientist.)
Scientist: The results of these tests were most illuminating. The penguins scores were consistently equal to those of the non-English-speaking group."
-- http://www.montypython.net/scripts/penguins.php