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do not want to write conclusions that the rest of the members of this committee will have to live with, but I believe that in future agreements of this kind — and it should not be a secondary effect — artic
le 2 should clearly state that in the case of services to minorities, because it probably applies to francophones in the rest of the country outside Quebec, this was not the inten
tion of the federal government when they transferr ...[+++]ed the power; on the contrary, the transfer was based on trying to help bring the services closer to the community.
Je ne veux pas en arriver à des conclusions engageant les autres membres du comité, mais je crois que, dans toute entente analogue ultérieure, l'article 2 devrait préciser l'intention du gouvernement fédéral — et cela ne saurait avoir un caractère accessoire — en ce qui concerne les services aux minorités, dont les minorités francophones du reste du Canada qui vivent probablement la même situation.