Thank you very much.
I wanted to clarify one thing for the committee, because I think it's important. In Ms. Jennings' first response she was talking about the under-representation of English-speaking Quebecers within the Quebec civil service, which also applies, by the way, to the municipal civil services and the federal civil service in Quebec, although not to the same extent.
Although it may be causally linked, that's a separate issue from the fact that Quebec's Charter of the French Language says that the Quebec government and all institutions within Quebec that are not officially bilingual, where the minority is the majority, have to operate only in French. She's saying that if the Charter of the French Language were applied to federal institutions in Quebec, the people in those institutions, even if they were in an area in which English was the majority language, would work only in French. They would have no option to work in English.
Companies of over 50 people in Quebec are also subject to the provisions of the Charter of the French Language. So except for small businesses, there is little space for English-speaking Quebecers to work in English. That's what I think she was saying, in case any of you didn't get it.
Monsieur Fraser.