Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Boyer, you are precisely talking about tools under provincial jurisdiction. Will the amendment require school boards to provide them?
If the school boards say they will not provide the data, the federal government can't get it because school boards are under provincial jurisdiction. Even as an MP, sometimes you have to ask a school board for permission to talk to students. It's fine when you're friends with the principal, but if not, you get locked out.
So imagine if you asked the school board for lists of students! I have done it before because I wanted to send a congratulatory letter for graduation. Some school boards agreed to provide me with the lists, but others turned me down because it's at their discretion.
How are you going to estimate the number of francophone or anglophone children in a province if you run into the same issue we are currently experiencing? In no way does Bill C‑13 require school boards to provide lists. Therefore, the resulting estimate could be inaccurate.