I don't see how I imputed motives at all. I stated facts.
I presented the first study that was done on the promotion of French a few years ago, which took a very long time. As part of our study, we included francophones outside Quebec. We included anglophones. Then prorogation happened. It took two or three elections to get through the clause-by-clause study of the new Official Languages Act.
Assuming everyone around the table is acting in good faith, I am prepared to make a concession if necessary. I'm open to the idea of continuing the study on the education continuum and then studying the promotion of French in Quebec.
Clearly, if French continues to decline at this rate in Quebec, that will be detrimental to all francophones outside Quebec, be they Acadians or Franco-Ontarians, because the root cause is the same. However, 90% of francophones live in Quebec. Since the Official Languages Act came into force, the Canadian government has focused solely on promoting English in Quebec. It is as if they are trying to weaken French where it is strongest. I think this has gone on long enough. We need to move on.
I therefore propose that we study the Quebec issue after completing the education continuum study.