Wednesday, the new Action Plan for Official Languages will be introduced. That's perfect, and I have no problem with that. Minister Joly has already announced an additional sum of $400 million. There are probably measures that will affect you. We hope so and that is our wish.
Concretely speaking, however, that money will not be available for six to nine months. We are simply asking the government and the committee to agree to the creation of a $2-million emergency fund. My colleague, Mr. Choquette, said earlier that the government had already planned to allocate certain amounts to advertising. Let the government immediately take $2 million out of the Budget 2018 advertising budget, which it tabled and which will come into effect in one week precisely, on April 1. The math is quite simple.
Mr. Guzmas, I don't know if you are an accountant, but if you aren't an editor, you are an insurance specialist. You know figures well because you were very eloquent on this topic.
We will go back to that later, and I hope that we will vote in the near future.
I am saying all of this to explain that it would be very easy for the government to create this emergency fund very quickly. We have to move forward and it's just that simple.
This concludes my intervention.