Statistics Canada is not a polling firm, of course. But we know that you do collect a whole lot of information. Given that we would like to find out the interests of parents, and not just those who are the rights holders, could we not just not ask them if they would be interested in sending their children to a French-language school outside Quebec, if it were possible to do so? Would a simple question like that not enable you to identify whether there is any interest?
Just now, Mr. Lefebvre was saying that we are looking for the best information possible so that, in minority settings, we can make decisions about building school or community infrastructures. We are not able to do so because we do not have all the data and we do not know the real interest. Being a rights holder is one thing, but having an interest in the francophonie is another. We know that interest in French immersion schools is growing rapidly in Canada.
So there is interest from members of the anglophone community in sending their children to school in French. If there was a simple question like that, would that not give Statistics Canada and the government a way of concluding that, in other communities in the country, not just in places where people are in a minority situation, there is an interest in everything French. I think that one of the goals of our committee is not just to find out who the rights holders really are, but also who has an interest in learning Canada's other official language. That is a basic question that I would like answered.