As a former resident of Montreal I'm going to disagree with you on some points.

I don't think it's safe to say that anglophones have a desire to learn French so much as it's a necessity in order to live and work there. There are still large numbers of anglophones who only speak English (or don't speak French at all), while there are a significant amount of Francophones who speak no English at all or have terrible skills in it (especially the more east you go and more nationalist they become). It's also not uncommon for Francophones to refuse to speak English, even if they know how.

That isn't to say Montreal isn't bilingual, because it is impressively so. For many, the level of proficiency in both languages is astounding enough that it can be hard to discern what a person's first language is (though in many cases they might have both English and French as their native language/ L1). Many studies on bilingualism have been done in Montreal since the '50s (Paradis and Genesee have done a considerable number) due to Montreal being unique home to two large linguistic communities. This enables people to have a better connection to cultural, academic and economic communities (hopefully) than uniquely monolingual cities. It enables the freedom to talk to more people in your city than you'd otherwise have if you spoke only one.

However, Montreal is plagued by Quebec and Bill 101 and historical revisionism that downplays Anglophones role in making Montreal the city it is today and chases away many anglophones and companies, turning Francophones against Anglophones, and through that vice-versa.

I support Montreal partition because I think the city would do so much better without the ridiculous politics that hold it back and undo progress that has been made.