The government has committed to promoting and protecting French. There is a consensus in Bill C-13 on this point. We are talking about federal services here. We are not talking about provincial services. As I said, this is about post offices and Service Canada centres, for example.
In those cases, in Quebec, all federal services are already offered in French. All federal offices in Quebec offer service in French automatically. Here, the issue is how to guarantee comparable treatment for the anglophone minority in Quebec. There are certain rules associated with that.
In the current act, the two communities are treated the same way. When a federal office is located near a minority language school, it has to offer service in that language. Whether in Quebec or outside Quebec, the service is offered in both languages when there is a minority community.
That is the basis of the treatment. That being said, we have to remember that the federal government offers all its services in French within Quebec at all times. Offering services in English as well is an another plus.