Thank you.
I like this discussion, but what matters to us is that we are basing it on the data presented in the white paper. It reads as follows: “The demographic weight of the Francophone population outside of Quebec, according to the first official language spoken, was 6.6 percent in 1971 and 3.9 percent in 2011”. We therefore took that figure directly from the white paper. That's why we're using that figure.
As with the immigration issue, we need to be succinct and use numbers to ensure that we have clear language in the legislation.