Concerning the services that are available for FSL, French second language training, there are some. Admittedly, many of these are at private colleges and so on, courses, night courses and so on. There has been some effort by the provincial government, through Emploi-Québec, to provide services as well. But by and large, it's pretty mixed, very hodgepodge. So there is a definite need, not just among low-income anglophones, but that runs the whole gamut. Basically, the infrastructure is not there, at least not in my opinion, and it's desperately needed. I think maybe 20 years ago the community wasn't aware of it, but today we're very aware that the need is there and that we should make sure that our young English speakers are very bilingual, so that at the very least they have no linguistic reason to leave. If they're leaving anyway, that's their choice, but at least they have no concrete reason to.
On November 8th, 2006. See this statement in context.