We'll have to assess the impact of the act in a few years.
First of all, putting names on things and acknowledging that French, which is in a majority position in Quebec, is nevertheless in decline is a first step. The fact that the federal government is now part of the solution and not the problem, which previously wasn't clear in the act, is a new shift in the bill.
However, I'm troubled by an ambiguity here, which I brought up in the first of my four solutions. And that's the way the legislator seeks to confine the matter to a preamble. The preamble isn't really part of the act. It's as though Parliament wanted to leave some room for interpretation, for the courts. The judiciary would either confirm the importance that must be attached to this new shift or make the claim, since it's confined to the preamble, that it's not really the law.
That's why I propose in the first solution that the new shift in the preamble be clearly expressed in an interpretive provision. In addition, where there are delegations of authority, since the government is responsible for many matters, that authority should be exercised in accordance with certain criteria, one of which is the new shift that we're describing together.