The documents you'll be receiving — we only have them in French here — describe studies and library inventories. Officially, 75% of books are in English. Seventy-five percent of the books of university libraries are in English. If you exclude obsolete books, you get approximately 80% or 90% of books in English for all sectors.
In the field of Roman studies, which isn't high technology, the books are in English. In political science, the books are also in English, particularly those from the European Union.
In our view, this situation is undesirable because it creates a handicap, which undermines equality of opportunity between French- and English-speaking Canadians. If we rely on the studies conducted in the United States, it creates an average comprehension handicap of 18%.
Studies have been conducted: 75% of books are in English. As regards French books in libraries, the situation is deteriorating at an alarming rate, as a result of which all books will be completely in English within 15 years.
I went to the aerospace school in Montreal, which is a vocational school. At first, people attending a vocational school don't have very good mastery of their mother tongue. In addition, all the books at that school are in English. The drop-out rate there is also astounding.