Take Vancouver, for example. I was there two weeks ago. The francophone and francophile population in British Columbia is increasingly exponentially. It's extraordinary to see all those people. There's a good side to that. For example, in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, there are now young francophones coming from French immersion schools who are enrolled in medicine and who will eventually be able to offer those services to francophones. Clearly the francophone communities in British Columbia and in Alberta are growing steadily because of immigration owing to the economic boom in both those provinces. It's good timing. Two weeks ago I was in Alberta and British Columbia. It is clear that our networks in those provinces are no longer able to do the work because of an influx of people that nobody could have imagined five years ago.
In Alberta there are a significant number of Quebecers and francophones from elsewhere who want services in their language. That's to be expected. However, those services frequently do not exist. I'm using those two examples to illustrate that it is in fact difficult to keep pace in terms of services, with the extent of the development that is occurring in both those provinces.