Thank you.
Ms. Breton-Le Goff, your statement was very interesting. If I was an average citizen sitting in my living room, reading the papers and watching the news, and if I learned that there were changes in wording and terminology, I would not understand and I would not notice a change in policy. I could not imagine that the government was making any major policy changes. If I was an average citizen, if I was not an active feminist, if I did not read the paper and if I was not on top of current events, I would not see any kind of change whatsoever. Calling a “child soldier” a “child in an armed conflict” from now on is indeed a change, but a small one. Talking about the equality between men and women, rather than gender-based equality, is a very subtle change for the average citizen.
However, it goes much deeper than that. But when Mr. Kessel appeared before the committee, he made it clear that this did not represent a change in the government's policy.
Why do you think the government wants us to understand that there is no change in its policy, when, in your opinion, these are major changes?