Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to come back to Ms. Martin-Laforge on the issue of the basic rights of minorities.
In my riding of Brome—Missisquoi, anglophones represent about 18% of the population. I feel I must defend this minority group which is different from the rest of Quebec, as I would defend the French language elsewhere. Generally speaking, Quebec anglophones are included in the groups mentioned by Mr. Schafer. They have money. But the anglophones in my riding do not. We both belong to the odd fellows, and you know those people. It's the same thing in the Pontiac where anglophones do not have a lot of money.
Why do anglophone groups in Quebec, who truly need to take their case to court, for instance to promote literacy, need the Court Challenges Program? When the current government cut literacy programs, it affected my riding the most, because the anglophones in that riding have a high rate of illiteracy and are very poor. Those who had more money left. Only the poor stayed behind, and these are people I like, even love. I would like us to protect these people and I would like them to defend their rights.
Can you please tell us about the rights of these minorities? There are two official languages.