QUEBEC CITY -- While Bill 14 has revived many tensions between Quebec's francophone and anglophone communities, an English high school in Quebec City is offering a fresh perspective on the debate.

Despite recent rifts between the two languages, St-Patrick's high school shows they're more blended than ever. In the cross-talk over Bill 14, it might be an example of how working together -- ca fonctionne bien.

Just eight blocks from the National Assembly, the bilingual high school students feel they're the lucky ones.

“People come up to us and they hear us talking both in English and in French. (They say,) “Oh you guys are so lucky, I wish I had that chance,” said Grade 11 student Bianca Rheaume, who speaks a solid Franglais.

She and her bilingual classmates say the Parti Quebecois government doesn't understand them.

“We're kind of the group on the sides… like they don't really know what to do with us,” she said.

Language minister Diane De Courcy said she respects everyone's rights, despite Bill 14 limiting francophones' access to English CEGEPs.

Student Alexandre Moisan thinks that’s a problem.

“I don't think it's fair because CEGEP is where you start to think about careers and stuff. Most careers you need to speak English,” he said.

PQ MNA Daniel Breton has questioned why French students would even want to go to English school, but

Alexandre, who is thinking about a summer job, knows why.

“You can get jobs, tourism jobs, where you can take people around on a tour,” he said.

De Courcy has given military families a reprieve by taking them out of Bill 14 but she says the exemption they get in order to study at schools like St-Patrick’s is unfair.

She plans to deal with it in future legislation.

St-Patrick’s vice-principal Steven Dopheide said the PQ government should try putting itself in the shoes of the anglophone minority

“I'm not sure they really appreciate the situation that anglophone schools find themselves in, especially in Quebec City. We are three high schools and five or six elementary schools and we depend on every single student,” he said.