Yes, it's a team effort.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, thanks to all our witnesses.
I'm going to go to you, Ms. Crist. First, I want to thank you for your open letter of last Friday. We're meeting today as part of our study on the decline of French in Quebec and Canada and to discuss the case that was heard in court.
I think the federal government has abandoned its responsibility to provide French-language services to minority communities, which will accelerate the decline of French. I want to read an excerpt from your letter:
The court found that, following adoption of the federal-provincial agreement, the federal government did not have an obligation to ensure that employment assistance services were offered in both official languages pursuant to part IV of the act… because… the Government of British Columbia was not acting on behalf of the federal government in implementing the federal program.
That of course illustrates the importance of the amendments to part VII of the act and the urgent need to include linguistic clauses in the federal-provincial agreements.
Do you think it's normal for us still to be waiting for this modernization in 2022?