Thank you.
As my colleague Mr. D'Amours said, Canadian Parents for French was in Ottawa, and I really, honestly, appreciate that you're here today.
One of the questions at that time that was brought to us--not a question, but a worry--was that there were not enough French immersion schools, there were not enough places. The problem we had in New Brunswick was that the parents wanted to send their kids to school, but there were no places.
If you look here at 115,770, it's pretty impressive, right? I feel it's impressive. Out of a million people, maybe it's not, but I still say that people have.... I have three daughters, and I'm so pleased that they have learned English. In some other countries they learn five and six languages, and here we fight over two. It's just unbelievable. It seems to be that our country needs something to fight about. In some countries it's religion, in some other countries it is colour, and here it is language.
What can the government do? What you have said, Ms. Ferenczy, is that money is coming in, but we don't really know where it's spent. We just heard the representative of the government, Mr. Lemieux, say that they're putting in $1 billion, but what you said is that we don't know where the money goes.
Especially because education is a provincial jurisdiction, what would you recommend to the government if they give money through Official Languages, if they give money to provinces to do a certain task? Our country has two official languages, and the reason for that is that they are the two
founding nations. Thus, we recognized that both languages spoken by these two nations would be both official languages.
Now what do you recommend we put in our report?