I would like to thank all the witnesses for their participation in our work.
Mr. Rousseau, you said the territoriality-based model is the only way to secure the future of minority languages. In Canada, French is the minority language.
On the subject of the situation in Quebec, there is a 1993 decision of the United Nations regarding public signage, which said the following:
[Translation] A group may be the majority in a province but still comprise a minority in the state, and accordingly be protected by Article 27 [of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]. Anglophone Canadian Citizens cannot be considered to be a linguistic minority.
The Official Languages Act is based on the premise that anglophones are a minority in Quebec. As a result, all of the funding and measures taken serve to strengthen English in Quebec.
Is the act not contrary to international law?