I think we should be addressing these concerns the other way around. We should be helping organizations on the ground, helping new Canadians learn Canada's two official languages and helping our young people. We should not be starting with a bill like this which, in my opinion, is extremely divisive. I note that every newspaper in the country is saying that it is not in the interests either of the institution, or of official languages, to pass a bill like this.
There should never be a country where people have the sense that their mother tongue makes them second-class citizens. We should never reach that point. That is why our government has made a commitment, through the Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality, to help grassroots organizations, help young people, help our schools and celebrate Francophone culture and the French fact across the country. That is why we are making these commitments.
It is certainly not in the best interests of Francophones; there are more than 2 million Francophones outside Quebec--