I'll start by saying that Droits collectifs Québec is strongly against the draft regulations when it comes to Quebec's jurisdiction. We will not speak to the relevance and potential value of the draft regulations to protect the French language and the language rights of workers to earn their living in French in federally regulated businesses outside Quebec, where the draft regulations will fill a certain legal vacuum, albeit in a very sector-based and geographically and demographically limited manner.
However, we believe that in Quebec, the draft regulations unnecessarily duplicate the Charter of the French Language. On top of that, the regulations are in conflict with the charter as they propose a language monitoring and protection regime that is significantly less effective than the charter in a number of key areas. Quite frankly, we see the draft regulations as a calculated effort by the federal government to encroach on Quebec's political and legal autonomy on language matters by seeking to counter the legal impact of the Charter of the French Language, which does apply—