As you can appreciate, a motion brought forward by my colleague Mr. Serré is depriving us of our right to speak. We see it as a gag order, and we are asking that this part of the motion be withdrawn completely. This part proposes that clause-by-clause consideration have a time limit imposed on it, and that is not what we want. We want to get this right and we want to make sure that the act is sustainable.
As I said earlier, we want this legislation to stop the decline of French the day after it comes into effect, as well as protect and promote French for the next 50 years.
I want a bilingual Canada. I say this again because there are people in other parties who do not understand the concept of a bilingual country, a Canada where French and English are the two official languages.