I would also add that positive measures must not be incidental to the primary mandate of a federal institution. A positive measure cannot be a small, related initiative that isn't at the very heart of what a department does.
As we saw, the federal budget proposes significant investments in infrastructure and housing, for example. Will these new programs include an obligation to support housing and infrastructure construction in francophone communities?
Right now, there's no such obligation, but these are the types of flagship policies that communities want to get involved in and that have been relegated to the back burner for far too long. I'll give you an example. The Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities could use a very small budget to launch a small initiative that ultimately does nothing to ensure we get our fair share of federal programs and major initiatives.
I think that's the spirit of positive measures. They must not be parallel, but rather at the very heart of everything the federal government does, in all the political programs developed. We have to think about francophone minority communities, target their specific needs and adapt programs and projects to their reality. That is the crux of the modernization of the act.