In a way, I'm pleased you mentioned court challenges without us asking you the question. Perhaps the government can understand that it's a problem across the country.
As regards child care centres, the Conservative government is putting the emphasis on the family, it's true, but I don't think it understands that, when say child care centres, you're talking about families where the parent or parents have to go to work. People may not want to have to use child care centres. Perhaps they would prefer one of the parents to stay at home to take care of the children, but the problem is that both have to go to work. The purpose of taking part in child care funding was to give parents the chance, the opportunity to have access to child care centres. So we shouldn't take any other path to do anything else but respond to the situation. The situation is that governments are responsible for providing child care access, especially to Francophones, because, as Ms. Bourgeois said so well, we should stop speaking like a minority community: we are Francophones, and that's recognized in Canada's laws. Under the Official Languages Act, we are one of the country's two linguistic communities. The goal of our efforts to get child care centres and schools is to be able to bring our children together in a Francophone area so that they can keep the French language. Family is also part of that.
Pardon me, Ms. Boucher, but, on a point of order, I want to tell you that, when you ask a question, I don't interrupt you to tell you that someone is going to answer it. Thank you.
The witnesses heard my question. Now I'd like them to answer it.
Ms. Friolet.