Earlier my colleague from Manitoba talked about making alliances. If I understood correctly, he wanted to know the number of FL1s in the immersion schools, that is people whose first language is French. In my opinion, the role of immersion schools is to enable Anglophones whose first language is English to learn French. That's laudable; that's the way to do things. However, for Francophones, immersion school is a school of assimilation. Studies show that this language then becomes the norm for students.
Perhaps we'll have the time to address the question of numbers in another round, provided there is one more.
You say that the Dion Plan didn't respect the numbers-based approach. Furthermore, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states “where numbers warrant”. But no one even wants to address the question of numbers. That reminds me of the comment by Sheila Copps, who said there was no more assimilation in Canada. Of course, if you don't take numbers into consideration, the reality becomes artificial.
Can you give us a minute so that we can talk about it?