Official Languages committee  The process will take from two years to two and a half years.

Official Languages committee  I suggest, regardless of the definition criterion—and there are many of them—

Official Languages committee  —that you watch the video of Elvis Gratton defining a French Canadian.

Official Languages committee  We are talking about roughly 1 million people.

Official Languages committee  Roughly 1 million people.

Official Languages committee  Are you talking about the number of francophones in Canada?

Official Languages committee  The figure is approximately 8 million people.

Official Languages committee  I cannot give you an answer on rights-holders because the 2006 post-censal survey on the vitality of official language minorities was the first time we were able to enumerate rights-holders according to the three criteria set out in section 23 of the charter. If we use only the

Official Languages committee  Madam, I can only say that Statistics Canada is not...

Official Languages committee  Listen, these are not the first questions Statistics Canada does tests on.

Official Languages committee  You have no idea how many questions we have to test for every census in order to ensure their validity; we get requests from all over. This is not the first time we conduct such tests. We do it for every census.

Official Languages committee  I can only say to you, when you say that it's been 30 years...

Official Languages committee  When you say that something escaped us, all I can reply is that this is the first time in two years that people have exerted pressure to get Statistics Canada to collect information in such an explicit way on this topic. As my colleague said, we understand the requirements and d

Official Languages committee  That's right.

Official Languages committee  My colleague Ms. Denis mentioned to you that we are going to have a meeting on October 11 with the upper management of the FCFA. One of the objectives of that meeting is precisely to discuss that. We held talks on this with the members of the QCGN, and we will have others. We al