Yes, to some extent. I completely agree with their willingness, with their plans to go look elsewhere and go study elsewhere. I hope that, when they leave, they do so with a desire to return. But at the moment, they leave to go—they are not thinking about coming back. Perhaps if we could get them to think about it, some of them might come back. But they would need to have a future, and jobs. A francophone who leaves and who is bilingual when he or she returns from obtaining a university education elsewhere would be ready to work in English or French. Anglophones in Quebec are already bilingual. The vast majority of anglophones are bilingual. They are able to work. But there has to be a community to receive them.
On November 8th, 2006. See this statement in context.