There have been binding language clauses in the transfer agreements with the provinces before. For instance, we clarified things so as to oblige every province to set aside a certain amount for early childhood development in French. This is a best practice and an incentive.
The Official Languages Act was created 50 years ago and yet, unfortunately, over the past few months, bilingualism has been called into question. This allowed us to see that defending our rights must not be left entirely up to the federal government.
The development of our communities depends heavily on the provinces and territories, as regards health, education, social services and culture. We must have this conversation, and see how the Official Languages Act may also contribute to making things evolve in the provinces. I'm not saying that we should not respect provincial and territorial jurisdictions—not at all— but some way has to be found to impart obligations to the provinces and territories for linguistic minorities.