Madam Chair, I thank my colleague for his speech.
There are of course some concerns. Many Quebeckers cannot necessarily work in French in Quebec. The matter of French-language services in downtown Montreal is also worrisome.
Still, there are some encouraging statistics. There are millions of francophones and francophiles outside Quebec, 95% of Quebeckers are able to have a conversation in French, and the number of francophones on the planet continues to rise. Projections show that there will be between 500 million and one billion francophones in the world in the next 30 years. Those are encouraging figures.
Could my colleague tell us how to implement solutions to take advantage of this growing interest in the French language, while taking into account that it is not necessarily possible for many companies, especially American ones, in downtown Montreal to offer French-language services, and that Quebeckers do not necessarily have the right to work in French in federally regulated institutions or businesses?