I am not the person who simplifies the double and triple answers equally between the declared languages; Statistics Canada does that. It is the originator of that particular work method, and I adopted it, as do most Canadian researchers, Ms. Lamarre. When you refer to your colleague, Michel Pagé, you should at least state that you worked together with him on the IRPP study, which I am well acquainted with. Having spent five years as a member of the Comité de suivi de la situation linguistique, I am also very familiar with the data collected by the Office québécois de la langue française. I am very much aware of all the statistical and qualitative nuances of that information.
I am simply asking Committee members not to confuse micro-analysis and macro-analysis. I tried to present a simplified, comprehensive vision. Statistics Canada itself simplifies these statistics. When you conduct an ethnographic study based on 12 subjects in French-language school, you are not considering those Francophones who attend English school, as opposed to that one. That is not a comprehensive vision. Do not allow yourself to be distracted by your personal experience. I do not intend to tell you how many languages I speak. That has nothing to do with the overall status of languages in Canadian society. If we consider the main language spoken at home, rather than the mother tongue, the figures show that, over the last five years, the number of Francophones in Canada has increased by 65,000, whereas it was 800,000 on the Anglophone side. In terms of language of work, which I do not discuss in my paper--