Commissioner, thank you very much for your presentation.
I will first make a brief comment. For 51 years, we have been seeing that the situation has remained very problematic. The rate of language transfer of francophones toward English is constantly increasing. You are sounding the alarm. The language development model the Official Languages Act is based on should be reviewed. There is currently something of a blind spot in the Official Languages Act—in other words, official language minorities are handled by province.
So, in Quebec, anglophone communities are considered a minority, and the situation of French is not taken into account. Mr. Blaney talked about this earlier. In the Speech from the Throne, there seems to be developing awareness of this. In Quebec, French is in decline, English is advancing, and anglophone institutions are overfunded.
Should we take into account that factor in the modernization of the Official Languages Act?