We gathered sound bites to that effect when we did our cross-Canada tour. For example, some provinces, following the court challenges, recognized the right for Francophones to have their own schools in minority regions. The schools they got were those that the Anglophone community had closed in order to open new ones. The closed school was reopened in order to give it to Francophones. There wasn't even a gymnasium, absolutely nothing.
On Tuesday, we heard from the people from the Northwest Territories. They've been fighting for two years, despite the fact that they won the right, in court, to have their own French-language schools. They're still fighting to get a gymnasium.
That's not a very pretty situation. There's nothing to be proud of there. I'm a person, honestly, who promotes both languages. If we believe in the act that states that English and French are the two official languages of Canada, then both should be treated in the same way, whether in Quebec or in the rest of Canada. For my part, being a Francophone outside Quebec, I find it abnormal that we're still talking about this.
I don't know whether you know Antonine Maillet, who is originally from back home. I don't want to take up too much of my time; I just want to address this subject briefly. She said that, when the English left England and the French France, two great nations travelled across the water, fought when they left Europe until they arrived here and, 400 years later, one would say they're still fighting each other.
There are countries where people learn six languages and where there's no language problem. We only have two languages, and we're still fighting.
So I'd like to know, briefly, whether you'd like to make any specific recommendations, because that's what we want to put in the reports. For example, an illiteracy rate of 49% is unacceptable. A rate of 54% is unacceptable. What kind of programs do you think should be put in place to help our people?