Thank you for that question, because I think you've partially answered the first question by your second question. In fact, there are more similarities between the official language minority communities—the French-speaking outside and in the rest of Canada, and English-speaking in Quebec—than there are differences. Because we are a national minority, we have to be considered as a national minority.
In Quebec there are about one million anglophones, English-speaking Canadians living in Quebec, and by those numbers we compare with francophones outside of Quebec. There are the similarities, and the similarities are important because we need to be treated as a national minority. We are in one province, it's true, but the connections between the minority in Quebec and the minority outside Quebec, the French-speaking, is evident.
When we look at what is happening with the schools, school closures, access to education, access to health care, and that we have an aging community, that we have exodus from rural to the cities, we have a number of dossiers that link us. And for English-speaking minorities in Quebec, we've had a different evolution over the last 30 years, so there is a mythology that there is a lot of difference. There's a mythology that all English-speaking Quebeckers live in Westmount, go to Brome Lake for the weekend, and there's money everywhere. Well, no.
I would ask you to look especially recently. The Quebec Community Groups Network has put together with a Montreal group, what we call the Greater Montreal Community Development Initiative . On our website, on the QCGN website, you can see demographics, about 700,000 people living in Montreal, where there are demographic issues around employability, poverty, lack of access, all of these things, and what it does to the determinants of health. The links and the similarities are important, but the differences I think are more minimal than one would think.