Good morning, Mr. Fraser. I'm pleased to see you and your team here this morning. I've been listening closely to what you have had to say. I have several questions that have come to mind.
As you know, on Tuesday we met with Minister O'Connor and the Minister responsible for La Francophonie and Official languages. Minister O'Connor basically explained that he had done his best to foster bilingualism by implementing 10 of your 13 recommendations, which were very important in his opinion, and which came as a result of an investigation conducted by the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. The commissioner criticized the fact that under the previous government the universal program had not worked.
In an article which appeared in the newspaper Le Droit on February 13, you said: “Clearly, the universal approach wasn't as successful as we would have hoped”. In the latest edition of L'actualité, you even said: “It's an admission that the previous approach has failed”.
Based on your assessment, the universal approach can clearly be categorized as a failure. All the same, I'd like you to explain what brought you to the conclusion that the universal approach was a failure.