Mr. Chair, I just want to bring to the attention of my colleagues that there have been improvements made to section 41 by Ms. Kayabaga and others. The Liberals have also proposed amendments to strengthen it. For our part, we have included economic development.
In my opinion, we need to be consistent. If we vote against this amendment, we show a lack of consistency. We need to see it through to the end. As I said before, if we are not able to pass an effective bill, unfortunately, it is the French language that will suffer. It is in danger, in decline. This is a great opportunity to give us tools to reverse that trend.
I expect all members of the committee to support this subamendment, since it is the most reasonable one.
I talked about the relative strength of the other three subamendments with a nice figure of speech involving teeth—the dentists are going to be happy that we are talking about them this morning.
I ask my colleagues to be reasonable and support this amendment. If they reject it, it will show that they are not consistent.