WE, as an organization, services young people, services youth, and I know them because I'm a teacher—not because I'm an anglophone, but because I'm a teacher—and I have a lot of younger friends and I'm also one of the younger members of Parliament, so it's not too far from my generation, to be honest with you. That's why I have a better knowledge of this organization.
It seemed as though he was suggesting that even though anglophones know of WE in Quebec, francophones don't know of it, which I don't think is the case, because there are way too many schools that are currently involved or that have been involved with WE, so it wouldn't make sense for that to be the case.
Even so, what are we saying? I mean, we are on the official languages committee. Our mandate is to protect the official languages in Quebec and in the rest of Canada. As an anglophone Quebecker, I personally have a problem with saying that anglophone Quebeckers may know about WE but that it's not considered to be present in Quebec. I think it's wrong to say that it's not part of Quebec. To say that is to completely ignore the community of anglophone Quebec, of English-speaking Quebec.
I understand the importance of it being in French. Once again, that's why I was happy that most of the conference was in French, but I feel that saying that it's not considered to be in Quebec just because a lot of French-speaking people seem not to know about it is going a little far, and it's a bit of an insult to the English-speaking community. I don't think the current wording of.... I know I'm talking about the motion, the original motion at this point, but I don't think it's representative of the reality.