Let me address some of your initial points. I don't know if you've ever been west of Ottawa, but I come from the province of Manitoba. We have a very proud tradition of French and English there, and we have done some excellent work. When I was in provincial politics, we commissioned an individual by the name of Judge Richard Chartier, and he produced a report called “Above All, Common Sense”, talking about how we can further the francophone language rights in the courts.
I represent a riding that is probably somewhere in the range of 15% to 18% francophone. My colleague from St. Boniface represents a riding with approximately the same number of francophones. There's some disagreement about who has more francophones in their riding, but I can indicate that we provide government services in Manitoba in a way that has developed francophone language rights. I'm very proud of our record.
I can point not only to the justice area, with the courts specifically, but to the policing. We have bilingual areas in my riding out of St-Pierre where the police officers are all bilingual and serve a huge area of my riding bilingually. I was very proud when I was the Minister of Justice, and continuing in my role as a regional minister, to make recommendations and to speak with the Minister of Justice about the appointment of francophone judges. For the first time in the history of Manitoba--under our government--we had three francophone judges on the court of appeal, so that any appeal could be heard in French without translation. Now, unfortunately one of those judges decided--no, no, you've indicated that we--