Hello and welcome. Thank you for being here.
My questions are mostly for Mr. Corbeil.
I was very persistent in asking the committee to invite you. I impatiently waited for this year's statistics to be published. Those statistics are the most useful element that helps our committee properly grasp the linguistic situation.
I have heard a great deal said in the debate on interpreting those statistics. So I would like to go over some of the elements with you. I don't know whether we will have enough time, but I would like to discuss three topics: the demographic factor, the choice of allophones and the assimilation of certain francophones.
Let's look at the statistics on the language spoken at home. In Canada, in 2006, the number of people who spoke French at home was 6,608,000, while that figure was 6,827,000 in 2011. In Quebec, that number was 6,027,000 in 2006 and 6,249,000 in 2011. The increase basically comes from Quebec. Is that correct?