Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I also apologize, because while I can handle three or four other languages, unfortunately, French is not one of them. It's something that I'm endeavouring very hard to study right now, although I must admit that when you have a second, third, or fourth language, it does become easier—but not past the age of 60.
I want to come back to the Peel District School Board. You mentioned that one of the reasons students want to study in French immersion is that there are better job prospects. Particularly in Canada, the job prospects are in government, and the military, and perhaps in well-known organizations like Air Canada or some mining companies, and so on.
Based on my experience in speaking three or four languages, you need to have that environment where you can talk about commerce and where you can conduct day-to-day living, arts and culture. What kinds of facilities or environment does a student in, say, the Peel region have for making French a lively language as they go into the French immersion program? Perhaps you can give an example of what they can do or what your program does for them to give them a sense that learning French is lively and not like learning a language like Latin.