It would be easy for me to summarize.
When we look at these things, there seems to be somewhat of a disconnect between individuals' perceptions and their behaviour in their daily lives. On the one hand, they identify with both linguistic groups, and on the other hand, they believe that it is very important to have access to services in the minority language and that community vitality is quite strong. Approximately 40% of the population outside Quebec believes that their community enjoys strong or very strong vitality.
In Quebec, it is interesting to note that the anglophone community seems slightly more pessimistic with regard to the future of their community compared to francophones outside Quebec. This is evidenced by the results.
As you will be able to see in the other slides, the use of English among English-speaking adults in Quebec is quite high, no matter how much of the population of their municipality of residence they make up. Outside Quebec, we see a completely different phenomenon. We know that 42% of French- speaking adults outside Quebec live in their municipalities where they represent less than 10% of the population. However, this situation has a great deal of influence over their behaviour and their perception.
The results demonstrated that the use of French by francophones outside Quebec is directly related to the weight of that population in their municipality. In Quebec, we don't see quite the same situation. No matter what the weight of the anglophone population in their municipality, anglophones use English to a significant extent.
We asked questions about the use of languages with regard to access to health care services. Both francophones and anglophones in Quebec mentioned that it was important for them to have access to health care services in the minority language. In fact, numerous francophones outside Quebec mentioned that it is extremely difficult for them to obtain health care services in their language.
Finally, some significant results of the survey relate to school attendance, a theme that is addressed on page 18. Among the main results, 53% of children where one parent was French-speaking were enrolled in a French primary school, compared to 44% at the secondary school level. These are people who, under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, have the right to send their children to the minority schools, but they do not do so for a number of reasons. The survey reveals a number of them. We must remember that approximately 44% of parents whose children attend a majority language school, in a regular program, would have liked to send their children to a minority language school.
As you can also see by looking at the report published on December 11, there is a very close connection between parents' linguistic characteristics. Where both parents are francophones, families tend to send their children to a minority language school. Inversely, the proportion of couples made up of one anglophone or one francophone who send their children to a minority language school is much lower.
In Quebec, it is an entirely different story. A large proportion of English-speaking adults whose mother tongue is neither French nor English are not able to send their children to an English language school.
I have presented a lot of information. I hope I have not created too much confusion. I simply want to say that this survey on vitality contains much more detailed information on the situation of official language minorities, compared to what we have seen coming out of the Canadian census.