No, it's very important. Perhaps it's the same elsewhere, but we are particularly privileged here.
In Saskatchewan, this morning, one of the witnesses said that French was not a national language, a Canadian language. The Fransaskois are lost in the midst of all the other languages. French is only one of the 30 languages spoken in Saskatchewan.
Even though 85 percent of Canadians think that bilingualism is a distinctive feature of Canada and 79 percent of people outside Canada find that makes our country appealing, we don't promote bilingualism a great deal.
You asked that you be considered as allies, because you know that bilingualism is an issue. The government doesn't talk a lot about bilingualism and doesn't really promote it. Could you comment on that state of affairs? Have you seen the advertisement on television that talks about the benefit of knowing two languages in Canada? We don't talk about it and we're guilty of that because we've been in government for 13 years. This isn't a subject we discuss a lot.