First, Ms. Boucher, it must be recognized that the action plan needs to be developed further, that a lot more resources should be added to it. I don't think the resources under the Dion Plan would allow for reparations. We're talking about considerable resources for correcting centuries of injustice toward Canada's French-speaking community.
If you look at the figures we've published, the comparison between mother tongues and spoken languages, the statistics we use to measure assimilation, you'll clearly see that, in the case of French in Canada, outside Quebec, it's the English language that... Francophones are “defrancized”. I don't think the Dion Plan can be considered a reparations plan.
