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As a French Canadian with Catalan friends, fuck no.
Language is part of our culture. You can't translate anything slightly complex perfectly because vocabulary doesn't align between language. And that's without going into idioms.
People will always make concerted efforts to preserve their heritage, so looking languages takes a cultural genocide like in Ireland. Since we consider this to be morally bankrupt, I don't see it happening anytime soon.