I'll go first, and my colleague Ms. Boily, my committee expert, will chime in.
I can tell you that there have been extensive discussions and consultations, as well as close collaboration with the Quebec government's ministry responsible for the French language. We scrutinized the Charter of the French Language and the draft regulation, compared every comma and all the details that didn't match, and did our best to correct all the discrepancies. Some differences remain, but I can say with confidence that the two regimes are equivalent, apart from a few different implementation tools.
