Okay, but it's important that we have time to hear from these witnesses. The person I'm talking about received a call and was informed he was not invited to testify. We are talking about the main institution that defends the francophonie and the francophone and Acadian communities in every battle, one of the main civil society organizations that defends the French language in Quebec, and its president will not come before us to testify. That is absurd.
There is a whole series of witnesses. I'm sure that the Conservatives and even the Liberals have approached witnesses who have important things to tell us. We can't just hear from the federally funded groups if we want to encourage a diversity of views. I'm not saying that these groups are not important and that they don't fight every day to continue to live in French, but, whether we like it or not, assimilation is devastating for these people. When we say that there is—