Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to go a little further on one point that Mr. Mai started on.
The demographics of our country are starting to change. I was struck by the irony that in Canada's first couple of centuries we had exploration by francophones that took them to the Saskatchewan-Manitoba area. The oil sands are now taking francophones further west, which brings the series of problems we're talking about to areas that have not traditionally had to deal with them.
I'll go back to Mr. Mai's questions about the statistics. Mr. Doyle, you spoke about some of the barriers to prosecution, to expediency, and a number of quite legitimate reasons I suspect, on the part of the accused—