The Constitution recognizes language rights for our language communities [Technical difficulty—Editor]. We acknowledge that French needs more support to achieve equality between the two languages.
The Supreme Court recognized this again last summer in the Chilliwack decision, Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique v. British Columbia. We must do more to support the institutions of our language minority communities. This was recognized in Lalonde v. Ontario (Health Services Restructuring Commission), a case decided by the Court of Appeal a few years ago. We all remember the Montfort Hospital saga that took place when the Ontario Conservative government made cuts to health care services.