I certainly welcome the commissioner's indication that he's going to conduct a review of this. I think that's important.
I think, and obviously I've said, in some shape there needs to be strengthening of the law by amending the legislation. If we're concerned that they're not following the legislation as closely as possible or are not making their best efforts to follow the legislation, then simply strengthening the legislation, if they're following what's there today, won't necessarily be the complete answer.
When I met with the Commissioner of Official Languages, one of the officials used the phrase “at the end of the day”, and I guess that's what I'm interested in. At the end of the day, what can we do as oversight, whether it's you as committee, whether it's me as a minister? What can we do in oversight to ensure that, at the end of the day, francophones in this country can get the services they have every right to expect?
It concerns me when you hear Mr. Godin talk about a flight between Montreal and Bathurst...obviously the biggest francophone population in North America is in Montreal, and in northern New Brunswick, I believe, the francophone majority—