Mr. Speaker, in response to his question, I told the member that there are currently 60 French language schools in the Ottawa-Carleton region. Thirty years ago, there was no francophone school board in Ottawa-Carleton.
His questions are almost as logical as his comments today-the member is weeping crocodile tears. Assimilation is about as logical as the comment: "One of the reasons I became a sovereignist was because of the threat of assimilation".
Does he really think that a policy of separating francophones in Quebec from those in the rest of Canada will keep the country bilingual? The exact opposite is true. This is why we have 23 francophone members and senators from outside Quebec here. This is why Canada is on its way to becoming a country for everyone.