It's an essential distinction.
I would now like to address a second topic: services in French.
For services in the regions, a moratorium was called. Some criteria were used, but the 5% seemed to cause a great deal of problems. If the minority population accounted for less than 5% of the province's total population, it lost its services; a truck came to get the desks and everything else. In its wisdom, the government has put in place a moratorium and is in the process of holding consultations and reviewing all of that. This 5% criterion can play a role. It is not what eliminates the services, but it can be a factor.
The consultation helps determine what other essential things should exist in the communities. Basically, those analyses and consultations have shown that there were other essential things, such as francophone schools and community centres. We must think about the vitality and sustainability of communities. It's not just the 5% figure. If francophone immigration drops to 2% when it was 4% before, the population of the official language minority communities will shrink and automatically represent less than 5% of the total population. Let's scrap it.
Let's talk about the facts now. This relationship is very important. It is important to figure out how the communities will ensure their success. This should be talked about in the consultations on French-language services.
I know I do not ask a lot of questions, but I make a lot of comments.