Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to you both. Thank you for being here this morning.
Mr. Forgues, I want you to know how much I appreciate your research, and have for a long time. When I was a small business owner, I was fortunate enough to make use of your research findings in my work, proposals to establish schools in different parts of the country. Your data played a key role. Those schools exist today because we had the right data to start with. My hats off to you and Mr. Landry for the work you've done.
Research is precisely what I’d like to talk about because the data are so important, crucial even. Figuring out where to find the missing data has been the subject of much discussion. In that vein, can you tell us which data are important? Should the Official Languages Act stipulate the need for statistics and data on rights holders? I’d like to hear your thoughts on that.