Okay.
I'm not advocating throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I've come to you with a proposal. Based on what we've seen with the program in the past, yes, it has brought some favourable judgments that have benefited the English community, but we think there are problems.
Being able to raise some of its money, and it would be matched, is a way to show that there is some accountability to that community, it shows that there is some support in that community, and it creates a level playing field for different groups that might be competing on a particular issue within that community.
Very briefly, I'm not really anglophone as much as I'm Irish. I'm a citizen of Ireland. My family came here in the 1830s and were in Huntingdon, Quebec.
My great-grandmothers—because in those days we were Catholic, and that meant something—went to schools with French Catholics. My great-grandmothers were fluently bilingual.
But my grandparents came to Montreal, and my grandparents became the first unilingual anglophone generation. And then my parents subsequently went to English Catholic schools, because we had enough critical mass of English Catholics, or Irish Catholics, to have our own schools in English. That began the anglicization of us, the Irish community.
You know, Pierre-Marc Johnson is my distant cousin. There only reason there is—