I was not there when that commitment was made, so it's hard for me to explain the context under which such a figure would have been arrived at. It is, to some extent, mystifying, but I can see why politicians set themselves really high objectives. Doing so captures the public imagination, and trying to focus on such really incredible goals does work to gather energies and create synergies.
On the other hand, practically speaking, what I can speak about is the fact that the number of bilingual Canadians graduating from high school is increasing in the extreme across the country. This is something to be very proud of. Official bilingualism is not going down, it's going up, and at a furious pace in some jurisdictions such as British Columbia and Alberta, and in provinces that you think don't have significant, strong programs in the official languages. The French immersion programs in British Columbia and Alberta are absolutely booming, and it has been a bone of contention that we've had to wrestle with in the context of renegotiation of the new protocol. You can just imagine.