Ms. Brunelle, I believe you have touched upon some essential elements. The strengthening of community life and the community's capacity at this point to live more effectively in French are extremely important basic factors.
I think that in the past, there was perhaps a misunderstanding about all the work done by the many organizations dedicated to the development of French-language communities and to the spread of French in every form. We were told many times that there were many, and that there was some complexity.
It is important to understand that in a minority community, life is not the same as when you are part of the majority. Hence the extreme importance of spaces and infrastructures. This capacity needs to be strengthened so that there can indeed be these services and so that people in a community know where to go. I would say even more than that. I would say that there is still an enormous amount of catching up to do. We need only think of those families—Mr. Cousineau mentioned this earlier—in which it was no longer considered useful to speak French because people spoke English at work. In some families French has been lost for generations.
If it is not possible to actively offer services in French and to promote these services, people will get out of the habit of requesting them. Hence the importance of capacity building, because what is involved is not only offering the services, but being able to talk about them, promote them, and in other words, being able to do more.