Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm anxious to see Mr. Hayes become a permanent member of this committee. Obviously, by his comments, he hasn't seen Mr. Gourde's whip.
You'd better be careful what you wish for.
Ms. d'Entremont, according to an analysis by the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities, the vast majority of immigrants who reside in New Brunswick, that is to say 81.1% of them, had English as their first official language in 2011, whereas only 11.7% had French as their first spoken official language.
Could you comment on this and explain why, in an officially bilingual province, the figures are so different?