I don't want to be redundant by asking you all the questions that my colleagues asked you. However, as my Acadian colleague, Mr. Samson, said at the outset, your remarks are worrisome. They are a bit in the same vein as those of Mr. Corbeil, namely that you are listening, that you have heard us, and that you are going to conduct tests. But we have lost generations of young students in francophone or anglophone minority communities because Statistics Canada wasn't able to enumerate the rights-holders effectively and adequately.
My mother worked for Statistics Canada at a time when you had to knock on doors and ask people how many refrigerators, children, and cars they had. But in this case, let's put on our blinders and confine ourselves to the context of the rights-holders.
I asked Mr. Corbeil two specific questions. In fact, you have just confirmed his responses in a sense, but in a different way. In these questions, I asked Mr. Corbeil whether he had consulted specialists on the matter. He answered me by saying that he was ready to hear from everyone, all the departments and agencies. But this did not answer my question. In fact, I had asked him if he had consulted specialists on the matter. A good many constitutional experts could perhaps help Statistics Canada realize what its obligations are towards rights-holders.
I will ask you the question again. Has your department consulted such experts?
I would like to have a brief answer, yes or no.