Denis spoke about the leadership issue. Leadership is as important as funding for communities so that they can promote and defend their rights. We fail to understand why, when we go to court, the government is absent or it is with those who are challenging our presence.
Let us take, for example, the Northwest Territories. When we have the resources to hire one lawyer to defend the rights of the Franco-People of the North and we have to face a bevy of lawyers representing the Northwest Territories and federal government agencies and so forth, I find this unjust. There's something basically wrong with this vision of Canada that they are trying to build.
As Denis said, the cement with which tomorrow's Canada will be built is made of respect for the rights of minority francophones, of first nations peoples and multiculturalism. Without leadership, it will be difficult to maintain the momentum and commitment of the communities. Each time that we stand up for our rights, the federal government—the very government that is responsible for ensuring linguistic duality in the entire country—instead of unequivocally supporting us, is challenging our rights.