Premise: Honourable senators, on November 16, the Honourable Jean-Maurice Simard called the attention of the Senate to the current situation vis--vis the development and vitality of francophone and Acadian communities, its gradual deterioration, the growing indifference of governments over the past ten years, and the lack of access to services in French.
Hypothesis: The indifference of the governments had been growing over a period of more than four years.