I completely agree with you. That's the essence of it. It's central to the proposals we submit to the House of Commons. A territorial model is required to genuinely confer a specific and distinct status on the French language. We are proposing it in Quebec, but nothing prevents it from being extended elsewhere.
In Quebec at least, the French language really needs to be the common language, and not simply an individual entitlement. It's the territorial model that will enable us truly to defend a collective language spoken by the majority, while it remains a minority within the federation.
We need to make a clean break with the idea of symmetrical bilingualism and espouse asymmetrical bilingualism, with a territorial structure, in keeping with the intentions of Camille Laurin and the Charter of the French Language. It's the only true way of achieving language protection in Quebec.