Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the speakers; it was very interesting. I was stunned when I heard the report from British Columbia.
My question is for Mr. Doucet from the Société nationale de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick.
You talked about the specificity of New Brunswick. The Official Languages Act was established on a kind of symmetry. In the 1988 version, while New Brunswick was given special status in the Charter, that was not reflected in the Official Languages Act.
Do you think the recognition of New Brunswick's specificity is realistic? You say the principle of “where numbers warrant” is a hindrance to Acadians. You've managed to obtain services in French in all municipalities, but you can't get them at the federal level.
Could you talk about that?