Good morning, everyone. It's a pleasure for me to meet you today. As I did with the first group that we heard from, I take the liberty of congratulating you for your courage and determination in maintaining the French language here. We realize that the need to save the French language is intimately related to culture and everything we are as individuals.
Mr. Senay, you talked about two stages of assimilation: learning a second language and forgetting the first language. You're telling us that this is a process that definitely operates over two generations.
In Quebec, when it became mandatory for immigrants to attend Francophone schools, we realized that the second generation spoke French. That's how French has become the common language.
You're saying that the future will be assured by correcting assimilation factors. Could you tell us how?