That's an opinion I had long before becoming Commissioner of Official Languages. The language issue is central to Canada's identity, history, past and future, just as class is in Great Britain and race in the United States. It isn't something you resolve then move on to something else. It's a dynamic. We have two majority unilingual societies that mingle with each other, that live together. The challenge is to ensure that ties, bridges are established between those two communities. One of the most important institutions serving those two linguistic communities is the federal government. Is it easy, will it be resolved by an annual report, a study that we'll publish next year or a bill and so on? No. It's an ongoing effort.
In addition, our country takes in between 225,000 to 250,000 persons a year who haven't experienced our history or our linguistic struggles. So this is an effort that will have to be made again, a story that will have to be told, an education that will have to be redone constantly in order to welcome these people into our country and to make them understand the dynamic, the hope and the ideal that that represents for our country.