It was wonderful, what we just heard! And that includes everyone.
I may surprise you, Mr. Castonguay. We must not be indifferent to the alarm you raised quite some time ago, in my opinion. I agree with you on that.
I am very disappointed to have only five minutes for my questions, Mr. Chairman.
First of all, Mr. Castonguay, I would say that your approach is an extremely mathematical one. That goes without saying, since you are a professor of mathematics. It is a very statistical and—I hope you will not mind my making a somewhat critical comment—very cold approach.
These statistics, whether they are from 1996 or 2001, may present a true picture of a new reality, to use Ms. Lamarre's expression. They do not include the impact, however minimal, of the emergence of Francophone school boards across the country, outside the infamous bilingual belt you referred to. I am talking about the die-hards in Zenon Park, in St-Boniface, at the Campus Saint-Jean in Edmonton, as well as those in British Columbia, and Whitehorse, in the Yukon. In Whitehorse, Yukon, they now have schools and a day care service that did not exist when the statistics were compiled in 1996—statistics which do not reflect the impact of these schools.
Do you take that in consideration, Mr. Castonguay? That is my first question.