Mr. Chair, I would like to underscore the importance of the Action Plan for Official Languages and its renewal in that regard. That was one of my messages this year. During the throne speech, I was very pleased to hear that the government was committed to the plan's renewal.
In the part of the action plan dealing with education, there is a commitment to double the number of high school graduates who are fluent in both official languages. The wish was also expressed to substantially increase the number of people who can access French-language schools, in the case of francophone communities, and English-language schools, in the case of the anglophone minority in Quebec.
The right defined in section 23 of the Charter is vulnerable because it is limited to a single generation. The gap between the number of students attending minority schools and those entitled to do so shows that communities are losing out, because the right does not include any provisions with regard to grandparents.