It is always somewhat perilous for an official to venture an opinion, Mr. Chairman. Nevertheless, I will attempt to address some of the issues raised by Mr. Nadeau.
With regard to French becoming the minority language on Montreal island, Statistics Canada reported—as the member well knows—that French-speakers with French as their mother tongue are becoming the minority group on Montreal island. Obviously, we could debate statistical definitions all day, but that is the category that is becoming a minority group. Nowadays, however, French is not the mother tongue of a significant number of French-speaking Quebeckers. If you take that into consideration, you obviously get a different figure. If you look at it from that angle, French is not becoming the minority language on Montreal island.
Your question was theoretical.