Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank all the guests for their excellent presentations.
For several years now, the Liberal government has been promising to introduce a bill to modernize the Official Languages Act. It finally did so at the end of the last parliamentary session, knowing that an election was coming. The bill therefore did not go through. During the election campaign, Mr. Trudeau promised to reintroduce such a bill within the first 100 days of his term, but we have now got to 140 days.
The government has been dragging its feet for years and I wonder how this has negatively affected francophone communities. How much of a difference would it have made if the Official Languages Act had been modernized sooner? I know that it's still a good idea to modernize it, and that it will be eventually, but the government keeps saying that it will do it, and then puts it off until later.
In short, has this had a negative impact on francophone communities?