Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I very much appreciate what's been said, first by Luc, then by Mauril. I'm a good example of what's at the bottom of this issue. I have a French name, but I'm Anglophone. When I was young, we had no opportunity to learn Canada's other official language through immersion.
The boundary of my riding was changed four years ago. The riding was slightly expanded to include the Highway 11 corridor in northern Ontario, that is Smooth Rock Falls, Moonbeam, Kapuskasing, Hearst, Val Rita, Mattice, and so on. That's a very Francophone region, but also a very bilingual one. Someone explained to me one day that a person who could switch from one language to the other without an accent, as many members do here, was a gem in Canada, a very special phenomenon. It's a challenge for me to become that. I think it's impossible.