Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As you know, Quebec contributes a great deal to the vitality of the francophone and Acadian communities—teachers, markets for francophone artists outside Quebec and so on—and I think that's a good thing.
If French continues to decline quickly in Quebec, as it's doing—Statistics Canada forecasts that the number of mother-tongue francophones will fall to 73.6% of the population within 15 years—do you think that will weaken the Canadian and North American francophonie as a whole?