Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  To add to what Mr. Corbeil and my colleagues have said, I will say that we need a credible third party in order to ask the question. If it not through a census, a survey may well not be the most appropriate way. The answers obtained and the subsequent analysis of them must start

Official Languages committee  Everyone used it. It could have been better, of course, but everyone used it, and we still use the data today. It is old, now, though.

Official Languages committee  We should think about getting another action plan. It should be freshened up somehow.

Official Languages committee  Yes. Certainly, if this question is not treated in the census, in a census question....

Official Languages committee  If there is another way to treat it, fine, but it has to be a credible source, because that's what we all need.

Official Languages committee  In 2002 and around that period, when the Government of Canada was looking at the first action plan and there was a notion that there would be a post-censal survey, enquête postcensitaire, the English-speaking community was consulted. I have to say that at that time, the English

Official Languages committee  Is it the new regulatory piece out of the federal government?

Official Languages committee  Well, that process is just starting, Madame Boucher.

Official Languages committee  So people all over the place right now are thinking about definitions and about how to count what. I can't really comment on what will come out of those kinds of things right now, but everybody is thinking about how to count differently, to count better. The francophones want to

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  I don't want to answer for Marcus. He's going to answer for himself. From the QCGN's perspective, the more information we have, the better the case we can make. From a policy perspective and from an advocacy perspective, we need to know the numbers. In Quebec, we have to deal wi

Official Languages committee  Yes, but in my answer, I'm just preparing this for Marcus to say—

Official Languages committee  —that if we had the numbers for the schools, we could probably do more work around that as well.

Official Languages committee  There are over 800,000 in Montreal and about 200,000 in the regions.