I'd like to talk about justice with the representatives of the Fédération des associations de juristes d'expression française de common law. You mentioned all the good the Roadmap has done in the area of justice. You also mentioned police officers, lawyers and judges. I'd like to know how far you've gone with justice under the Roadmap because that's an aspect that troubles me.
Is any education being done with the provinces?
I'm going to cite you an unfortunate example. I won't go into the details and I will name no one. You know that jobs are scarce in Acadia. There aren't a lot of them in the fishing and forest sectors. Many of our young Acadian francophones are going to work in the west where things seem to be happening.
This is a story of a francophone man who was arrested by police. When he asked for service in French, the police officer, who was a Francophone, told him she had no right to speak to him in French. Even though she was French-speaking, she could not question him in French.
That man is now in prison for four years. On the criminal aspect, I can't judge whether he's guilty or not. However, access to French-language services, particularly in a criminal matter, is important. We know that criminal matters are a federal jurisdiction. We also know that the federal government is building a lot of prisons, whereas at the same time francophones are turning up somewhere in Canada and there are no services...
In all the work you're doing, are you working with the government to raise awareness? It's all well and good to lay the groundwork. However, if the federal government decides to appoint unilingual judges to the Supreme Court and you can't get French-language services in Alberta, that doesn't do much on the ground. You can give everyone training, but that ultimately doesn't count for very much.
I'd like to know your opinion on that.