Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Corbeil, thank you for being here.
The issue of rights holders is extremely important for the committee and for the vitality of minority official language communities. There have been a lot of issues around that recently, for instance trials in British Columbia concerning access to quality schools.
Recently, there was an opinion piece signed by Mark C. Power and other experts entitled: Je suis compté, donc je suis! [I've been counted, therefore I am!]. In their opinion, many rights holders are not being counted. In fact, only half of them are reputed to be counted.
In your opinion, the census counts a lot of people, as compared to the 2006 Survey on the Vitality of Official Language Minorities.
Let's begin with that aspect. How did you come to believe that so many rights holders were not counted?