I'll see if I can respond fairly quickly.
I don't think, in terms of the other languages.... The government is better equipped than I am in terms of statistics. The individual who spoke recently said that there are 170 languages in the Toronto area, if I'm not mistaken. To me, there are economic advantages to having more than one language.
That being said, we are first and foremost a bilingual country, and I believe in the importance of putting the emphasis on that. Once we have that right, and once we've promoted that component of our identity and our economic way of life to the fullest, I think there are opportunities to be had that we certainly have not exploited or developed to their fullest potential, far from it.
More and more—and I see it in Saskatchewan—I see people coming to Canada who don't know either official language. Maybe 10 to 15 years ago that was rare, but today it is certainly more dominant. We have people from all over the world coming to Canada who don't know English or French. I look at that as an opportunity to say, “Okay, we're in a bilingual country. Why not recruit francophone people who have an understanding of at least one of the official languages?” If we have the opportunity to help make progress and to help some of the founding members of this country continue to operate and work in a way that helps portray that reality, we can bring added value and we can go a small step further. That's where I'm coming from as a francophone.
I completely agree that having more languages provides opportunities for more things. I've always said that to friends, neighbours, colleagues, and so on. We shouldn't just limit ourselves to two languages. It would be better to add more, but I think we first need to get the first two right.