Having worked in Ontario for almost 20 years and having worked on French-language education with the ministry, I can talk about the comparison between the anglophones in Quebec and Franco-Ontarians.
We have to compare a declining community with a developing one. We have to compare a government that sees the Franco-Ontarian community as a catalyst,
as an investment, giving them the rights to have their own licence plates—small things—and allowing the enrichment of the Franco-Ontarian culture by giving them services en langue française, the French Language Services Act, and an ombudsman and all of that.
They have come from 1917—everybody who is a Franco-Ontarian knows about 1917—to now, to not to be a threat, not to be a nuisance, but to be an incredible advantage.
We could talk for a long time about how our community institutions are in decline because the government has centralized everything. We have lost our governance boards at our hospitals, and they have wanted to take away our capacity to have elected commissioners. I can let my colleagues talk about that.
There is a centralization in Quebec that is incredibly detrimental to any minority community, whether it be francophone, anglophone, or ethnocultural. That is the demise of a minority community, and that's what we're fighting.