If you give it away, you lose it.
Do you have recommendations for us? There is French immersion, but what about follow-up? Because the problem is that sometimes young people go to school to learn, but afterwards there is no follow-up and no practice. Yet, that is what language is all about, is it not? For instance, if you want to become a welder, you have to practice. Otherwise, you will not make it. That is how it goes, even when it comes to language.
I left home at 16 to go live in northern Ontario. When people used to say to me that the rest room is clean, I thought they meant to say that the restaurant was clean, but through practice, people learn and they understand. Where I come from, for instance, francophones learn English in school, but that is not really where they learn it, because there is no follow-up.
What would you recommend, within the Framework of the Official Languages Action Plan, when it comes to the way money given to the provinces is used and the creation of a program to ensure follow-up and to give young people a chance to practice a second language?