Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My name is René Arseneault and I am a proud Acadian from New Brunswick and minority community francophone. I am somewhat lucky because I live in a rather homogeneous region, and the population there is mostly French-speaking. I had the good fortune in my life of knowing several Franco-Manitobans. When I was studying law in Moncton, several Franco-Manitobans were students in that law faculty. I'm thinking, for instance, of Christine Robidoux, the Chartier brothers, Allain Laurencelles and many others in my area of Saint-Boniface, as well as of the people in the francophone villages to the south. There was one in particular whose name escapes me. There were also a few French-speaking Saskatchewanians; Lise Lorain is one young woman I remember well.
I mention this because my questions may be legal in nature. There are other lawyers here. In fact, the first judge from the first cohort of the Moncton University Law Faculty in the beginning of the 1980s, was from Saint-Boniface. That is Mr. Chartier. There is a quite active and present legal community here.
Ms. Cwikla, earlier you were the first to speak of including rights in the act or of amending section 23 of the Charter. Have you read the briefs submitted by the community here on that topic?