Mr. Beaulieu, thank you for your comment and for this very relevant question.
Reference was made in the Speech from the Throne to the state of French nationally. It was said that there were eight million francophones in a sea of 350 million anglophones. We can agree on the fact that French is nevertheless immersed in that sea.
We are talking about strengthening the Official Languages Act and the French fact in Canada. That is sort of how I understand the Speech from the Throne, but I have not received much more information since it was delivered.
One thing is clear: the current social contract established through the Official Languages Act is an agreement between two majorities, and it was very well worded in 1969. The legislation talked about those two majorities—an anglophone majority and a francophone majority. At the time, there was agreement that official language minority communities would be respected.
The remarks in the Speech from the Throne do lead to some thought on how to strengthen official languages in Canada and support French in the context of its minority status across North America.