Mr. Speaker, francophones in Canada and Quebec are sick and tired of hearing people say it is always a challenge to give us our fair share. The minister's chief historian also concluded that francophone officers always have to take most of their training in English. I may remind the minister that it was his government, the Liberal government, that
closed the Saint-Jean military college. That is certainly not going to reverse the trend.
What explanation does the minister have for a comment by his historian that the army never wanted to have francophones in the intelligence sector, for instance? Is it or is it not true that francophones are systematically kept out of certain strategic positions in the Canadian army?