As for Mr. Lord, you seem to be paying him a lot of attention. You said that he got good results in New Brunswick. But I can tell you that your counterpart, Mr. Michel Carrier, who was the Official Languages Commissioner in New Brunswick at the time Mr. Lord was Premier, and whom you know well, said this week in the papers:
The position of Commissioner of Official Languages in New Brunswick has existed since 2003. Michel Carrier noted that in his four years as commissioner, he always received the same complaints. That's why he feels that departments and other government institutions must do more than simply react to non-compliance with the act.
Mr. Commissioner, there is no reason to boast about what was achieved in New Brunswick when Bernard Lord was Premier. He was not able to properly look after bilingualism in that province, so it doesn't look too good for Canada as a whole. The situation is clear: we have the data and the studies. I don't know if you looked at all the information. Further, New Brunswick's francophone minorities have shrunk by 2%. These are Statistics Canada's figures.