I will answer your question in two parts.
Of course, I am not an expert on francophone communities outside Quebec, but I can give you my general perception. My children, who are teenagers, are perfectly bilingual. I have the general impression that attitudes in Canada toward francophone communities have very clearly changed. It seems to me that this is much less of a problem than it was in the past. Even though there may still be some residual effects of this kind of thing, it seems to me that it is now to a lesser extent.
For example, Mr. Morrow spoke about the language skills of minorities. I have noticed that young anglophones in Quebec are now very competent, very capable of interacting in French, working in French and studying in French, and most of them already have. I have also noticed, based on the experience of a few Franco-Manitoban friends, that it is simply normal for people to integrate into the communities.
My general point of view is that the difficulties, barriers or prejudices of this type are much less prevalent in Canada than they were in the past. I'm not saying they aren't there. However, in terms of access to education or funding or capital markets, it seems to me that there are many fewer constraints now.
I would like to add something to the remarks of Mr. Robillard, Mr. Morrow and Mr. Lévesque. We spoke this morning about details, funding and budgets for certain programs that could help iron out some problems that affect official language minority communities somewhere in Canada. The Government of Canada and the professional sector have a lot of people with solid expertise in program evaluation. I think it would be a good idea to have independent evaluations conducted regularly by people who have no interest in those programs. They could therefore determine whether the funds attributed to a program are being used as effectively as possible, whether our programs still meet the intended purposes and whether they could be improved.
This is sort of related to what you just said. No doubt there are cases where some things that were constraints or real problems in the past have improved over time. If that is the case, perhaps it is less important to maintain programs aimed at eliminating those obstacles.
I think it would be a good idea to put in place an ongoing independent evaluation process for current programs.