Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister.
After two years of Liberal government and 25 years of the Official Languages Act, the situation of francophones outside Quebec continues to worsen. One third of them now speak English at home. In British Columbia, the assimilation rate is even 75 per cent. So now we are not speaking of more than a million francophones outside Quebec but rather of 640,000 who are still using French.
Will the Prime Minister admit that the poor results obtained from the Official Languages Act shows the failure of his vision of Canada, since it has not been successful in blocking the increasing assimilation of francophones outside Quebec?