But going forward, with the abolition of the long-form census, how will we know that you've avoided the risk of assimilation if we don't have reliable data about home language and mother tongue? For these new immigrants arriving today, we won't know 10 or 20 years down the road, say, if they have maintained French as the home language. Would you not recommend to the federal government that they return to a more reliable data collection?
On March 10th, 2015. See this statement in context.