It would be a mistake for this committee to focus solely on immersion schools because this may conceal a decline. In fact, it does conceal a decline. Your statistics show that quite clearly.
Before putting my last question to Mr. Maddix and Mr. Paul, I would like to note that retention is much better in immersion schools than in schools where regular core French courses are given. There is nevertheless some loss, and we are surprised to see what happens to students who may have spent six years of their lives supposedly taking all their courses in French. People in the upper spheres know that is not entirely the case. The fact that there is a loss of 25% or even a third, according to some of your figures, is somewhat troubling. How can you spend all of high school in immersion school and not be bilingual in the end?