Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech.
I liked what he said earlier. He asked if we wanted a bilingual country. Recently, there was an unprecedented admission that French is in decline, even though we had been aware of that decline for a long time. Assimilation rates in the francophone and Acadian communities go up year after year. I think that the overall rate of language transfer to English among francophones is around 40%.
We see what is happening with Laurentian University and the University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean. There are more and more important signs.
I would like to know what my colleague thinks. Has the decline of French been ignored for too long?
Is a major reform of the Official Languages Act not overdue?