Thank you for the question.
I don't think our research is as exhaustive as what the commissioner's office is doing, because that's its role and it's part of its mandate.
I recall that work on the bill began in 2016. When I became the Minister of Canadian Heritage, work had been progressing for some time, and I continued with it.
In the course of our discussions, tours and meetings, we obtained information about the status of the situation. However, the research was done more instinctively than quantitatively. I'm not sure that everyone had much information at the time. That's also when we became aware of the fact that for some indigenous languages, there were perhaps only three living speakers, and they were over 85 years old. We asked ourselves what ought to be done in situations like that.
We were compiling this information somewhat instinctively, but not scientifically. It will be up to the commissioner's office to do this work exhaustively.