Yes, I can. I have confirmed and clarified the observations made by Mr. Jedwab, based on 1996 census data, with respect to the policy of encouraging Francophone immigrants to settle in areas outside Quebec—not only Ottawa, but Toronto, Sudbury, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Halifax. Mr. Jedwab's study did not necessarily support that policy. If memory serves me, it found that, after 10 years in Canada, more than half of international Francophone immigrants, whose mother tongue was French, had already adopted English as the language spoken at home. Consequently, that policy tended instead to support a demographic deficit—which does not exist—in the Canadian English-speaking majority outside Quebec.
Mr. Jedwab also presented statistics which showed that, basically, Canada, outside Quebec, was already taking in more Francophone immigrants than Quebec. I was able to confirm this using 2001 and 2006 census data contained in two papers which I have copies of for everyone. The most recent one is in English and relies on 2006 data, with a slight difference… Outside Quebec, there are different linguistic realities. There is what is known as the bilingual belt—in other words, the Acadian part of New Brunswick, the Franco-Ontarian region of Ontario (Eastern and Northeastern Ontario) and key metropolitan areas like Moncton, New Brunswick, and Ottawa and Sudbury, in Ontario. I should just mention in passing that immigrants from abroad habitually settle in major urban centres. That is where the jobs are, and so on. That is why I paid particular attention to metropolitan areas. I noted that in those three urban centres, Francophones did not lose their mother tongue; rather, French continued to be the language spoken at home for most of them, whereas outside of those areas—and here I support Mr. Jedwab's findings—starting with the first generation, by the age of 45, more than half of the Francophones who had settled in Halifax, Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto had adopted English as the language spoken at home--