These five minutes are mine, Mr. Chair. If the minister doesn't want to talk about assimilation, I'm simply going to try to make her understand that the situation of the French minority Francophone communities in Canada is becoming increasingly awful from one decade to the next, and has done so since 1951. We were able to see that following the last census.
As minister, you are responsible for this situation, and you must ensure that the communities have all the possible tools to combat assimilation, that is to say the loss of their language and culture. By supporting, like your predecessor, the dismantling of the Court Challenges Program, you have removed a very significant tool from the communities.
Now I'm going to let you speak, but I nevertheless want to tell you that assimilation is a major factor. Even in Quebec, where we are a minority in North America, we see that the French fact is weakening, as is the case in Canada's other communities.