Mr. Chair, I would like to point out to the minister, who likes pulling out examples from here and there, that this is nothing but smoke and mirrors. In the case of Franco-Albertan schools, it is thanks to the court challenges program that we were able to win our battle in Alberta to get back our schools that had been abolished ages ago.
It was the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa in Quebec that spoke out against Franco-Albertan school management, while the Parti Québécois has always supported francophones in minority situations, by never speaking out against their battle. I will go even further. In the Mercure case in Saskatchewan, in 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada told the Government of Saskatchewan that, since the province had to be bilingual, the government would have to draft legislation in French and English establishing the province as unilingual English to avoid any problem. That is Canada's vision for bilingualism, for communities that are fighting so hard.
The minister realizes that communities are fighting. Who are they fighting against? Against the federal government and the provinces. It is outrageous. That is Canada and it does not respect francophone minorities, especially as we can see now with the—