We took the hit and are asking ourselves how far it will go. Hospitals were closed in Lamèque, Caraquet and Dalhousie, and several beds were closed in Saint-Quentin, etc. The hit was taken entirely on the francophone side.
I would like your opinion about this and I would like to know what the network can do. The Standing Committee on Official Languages could pass on your message about the cuts made by the federal government. Of course, we can't blame only the current government, because the 1994 government did its share as well.
The second subject I would like to raise is literacy. On this topic, I would like to hear what the Association of French Speaking Teachers of New Brunswick has to say about this. I don't know if anyone here can talk to us about literacy. It's not "fun"—I say "fun", because in New Brunswick we are bilingual—to learn that we are in a province where 64% of francophones are illiterate. That's nothing to be proud of.
Would you want the Standing Committee on Official Languages to put in its report what you have to say about cuts to literacy?
Let's begin by talking about health.