First and foremost, I would say that if we really want to secure the future of French in Quebec, we would have to teach French to and integrate 90% of newcomers to maintain our demographic weight. It's mathematics. The witnesses spoke about it.
To get there, the government of Quebec has been working to make French the official common language. That, in fact, is the difficult job that we are trying to do. It's only to be expected that newcomers would tend to want to integrate with the majority. Even though francophones are in the majority in Quebec, anglophones are in the majority in Canada, and even more so in North America. That's where the major challenge lies, because it's also a source of confusion.
As you know, the government of Quebec is trying, through Bill 101, to make French the only official and common language of Quebec, while respecting the historical rights of the anglophone community. For as long as Quebec is part of Canada, however, it will be subordinate to the federal government elected by the anglophone majority, which in an earlier time imposed a constitution and the Official Languages Act on Quebec. The purpose of the latter is to make English the official and common language. The federal language policy ensures not only that anglophones can receive services in English—already done by Quebec—but also that anyone who wishes can use English in public.
Secondly, as I said a little earlier, the decline of French is really perceptible. It's not just a matter of statistics. We conducted a major survey with the Journal de Montréal's survey office, in the course of which it was exceedingly frustrating to see that half the time, services were only offered in English, with no one able to do so in French. To find this in Montreal is certainly alarming.