Mr. Speaker, this is a major priority for our government. Certain steps have already been taken and we have considerably increased the program budgets for Francophonie and French language education.
For example, we have a totally new initiative in the medical field.
We have established an institute here in Ottawa to help francophones in the health field. We are going to take all necessary steps to allow all Canadians access to the French language in Canada and to celebrate with all Canadians the fact that Canada is the second ranking country in the world as far as numbers of French speakers are concerned.