To the universal child care plan, for example. That issue is important for French-language minority communities, since language acquisition happens to a large extent at the preschool level. At the Centre francophone de Toronto, we realized that we needed to step in day cares and provide specialized services in French. There are about a dozen francophone day cares in the Toronto region. So we work with those agencies by providing specialized help when they are handling problems with French-speaking children, who sometimes have development problems.
To get back to what I was saying about the Head Starts strategy, we were expecting to see a very substantial increase in the number of francophone day care spaces as part of the universal plan. That has not yet happened, and we would really like to see the federal government resume a leadership role in funding early childhood development programs, since those programs are crucial for francophones living in minority communities, particularly for new immigrants.