Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for their presentations.
I know you said at the outset that you did not have access to data to measure access issues, waiting lists, and some of the things we have heard about. I'm struck by the apparent correlation between the 27% increase in immersion and the 24% decrease in regular French. I know you don't have any empirical data to directly correlate the two.
Does this lead you to suspect that they're directly related and that a rise in immersion in a lot of the provinces has led to this? Is there any input from what Ms. Bateman suggested regarding the rise in pure French schools for children of francophone parents? I'd like to hear your comments.