Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for their comments.
My father was posted to the military base in Chibougamau in the 1970s. I spent all three of my high school years in an English-language school there. At the time, in addition to the public school, there were two anglophone schools there, one Catholic and the other Protestant.
Most of the workers in Chibougamau spoke French at the time, but the commanders, leaders and engineers spoke English. Most of the students at the anglophone schools were the children of the military personnel on the base. There's a French school now, and most of the students, 60%, are indigenous, from the Cree nation. The change is quite interesting.
Mr. Bolduc, I know you've wanted French to be the language of work everywhere since the 1960s.
Has that now become a reality?
Have you seen a big difference in the past 10 years? What changes have occurred?