Mr. Speaker, I see that the member for Mirabel understands the situation.
There is nothing in the budget on official languages. We see that francophones outside Quebec are struggling. We hear them say that they have rundown schools that are former anglophone schools. They are truly being treated like second-class citizens and the government is sitting on its hands and doing nothing.
In Quebec, however, despite the changes to the Official Languages Act, the government keeps spending and exclusively funding the development of English-speaking communities, namely their education system, to promote English, for anglophone lobby groups, for more English in the legal and health care sectors. However, in Quebec, it is French that is under threat. If the government does not want to help French in Quebec, then it should at least not harm it. If the government needed to find areas to make budget cuts, this might have been a good place to start. At the very least, the government could have taken that money and transferred it to Quebec.
This shows that when it comes to language, the only way to ensure the future of French in Quebec is through independence.