Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I've had the opportunity to serve on the Standing Committee on Official Languages since 2015. Some witnesses have appeared several times. The FCFA representatives have come often since 2015. They came particularly often in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
I'm thinking of the benefits that linguistic minorities in the country will obtain from the census that my colleague, Mr. Lefebvre, referred to.
In the past, in an effort to help language communities, some governments chose to make cuts in the court challenges program. The current government has chosen to include it in future legislation. This is clearly written in the white paper. Some governments chose to wait before funding universities. This government has chosen to fund them. In the past, other governments chose to stick to the short census form, which included a brief question about where francophones outside Quebec lived.
I want to speak to the FCFA representative.
What was your reaction when you heard that the 2021 census would fully comply with section 23 of the charter, through a long form?
I want you to give a short answer, because I have several questions.