Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
My question is to Ms. Garber.
You tabled your paper in both official languages. I thank you for that, that was a very good thing to do. It shows that you act on what you say. In this document, there is something I find interesting as a lawyer. You say and I quote:
For example, the Youth Protection Office in Cowansville reports that in March 2006, 52 per cent of its caseload involved English speakers, although English speakers represent only about 23 per cent of the population in the surrounding area.
That figure is high, particularly for youth protection services. If the figure applied to ordinary courts, I would understand somewhat, but here we are talking about young people.
Why has there been this increase? Is that something you discovered, or was that a well-known fact? What can be done about this? If you make the point to the committee , it is because you want to draw our attention to the problem.