Immersion programs are obviously very popular. The schools are full; they cannot meet the demand. However, other witnesses told us that it was hard to find teachers to provide high-quality instruction in those immersion schools.
How many teachers do you think should be added? Is a schedule possible? If we need teachers tomorrow morning, we may not find any. If we inform the educational institutions that we need second language teachers across Canada, it will nevertheless take four or five years before new teachers are available on the market. We must therefore have a long-term strategy so that we can meet the demand. We have to proceed gradually.