Thank you.
From what I understood from what Monsieur Beaulieu was saying, I agree; it's two different visions. There's the old historical vision that both languages are treated equally and the English-speaking minority in Quebec and the French-speaking minorities outside Quebec have equal rights at a federal level. Then there's the vision that the Bloc has always had, that the English-speaking minority of Quebec is not a real minority and they should not be protected federally.
That's never been the position of the Conservative Party before. The Conservative Party, including in Charlottetown with Brian Mulroney, tried to include in the Constitution of Canada the obligation of the federal government to protect the vitality and development of both linguistic minority communities. To introduce the Charter of the French language into this bill is essentially saying that we're agreeing that only some English-speaking Quebeckers get served in English—only those who have access to English schools. It's agreeing with using the notwithstanding clause in a pre-emptive way.
Mr. Chair, I understand the time. This will be my last intervention. I have just a couple of questions for the esteemed panel.
Number one, when you have a preamble of a bill and you make an amendment like this one, which is not actually in the bill—there is no reference in Bill C-13 to respecting Quebec's language choices as set out in Bill 101—you would assume that the same proposer would then try to put other references to Bill 101 in the bill, in many locations in the bill, to say that we're then subject in the bill to the choices made by Quebec, and federal services will be done in that way.
Would that not have a significant legal effect and go against the original intention of the bill of substantive equality?