Thank you very much.
I will now turn to Ms. Kenny. Even though it was not of our doing, as members of Parliament, I want to tell you how deeply we regret the decision made by the government, for ideological reasons that are totally baffling, to do away with the long-form census—a tool that gave us the data and figures necessary to deliver the services you should receive, the services you are entitled to under Canadian law. As a lawmaker, I wanted to apologize to you, even though our party had nothing to do with the decision.
We are here to study budget considerations, and the bottom line is that the whole issue of service offerings has to do with public spending. Would you be so kind as to check the definition and to give us an idea of what that means in terms of lost investment in Canada's francophone and Acadian communities?