Thank you. In the survey of the vitality of official languages communities, we observed that outside Quebec, 88% of parents whose mother tongue was French chose to send their children to French schools. We noted that in cases where one of the parents' mother tongue was French the other parent's was English, that proportion dropped to 34%. We're talking here about exogamous couples. It's often been said that the phenomenon of exogamy was the trigger that meant that French stopped being transmitted to the children and that English became dominant.
So in the course of this survey, we asked people at what age they'd started to use most often in the home a language other than their mother tongue, and we discovered that 75% of people who live with an anglophone partner today had started using English most often in their daily lives even before they met their partner. In almost 50% of cases, it was before age 15. That shows that when anglicization takes place during youth, among friends, networks and so forth, this eventually influences the choice of partner. The environment in which one lives is also a factor, of course.