Thank you very much.
I asked a question about the family this morning. Thank you for your comments, Mr. Godin, but I didn't have time to develop my position. I'm going to do that now.
In my opinion, the family plays a key role in language promotion. It's the parents who raise their children. When I spoke this morning, it wasn't so much to discuss various assistance programs for child care centres, families and so on, but simply to emphasize the role of the family, particularly in the Francophonie issue.
There are resources outside the family to help parents, to help families, but I think families should be helped directly if we want parents to promote la Francophonie, our heritage, and the French language within the family. It's in the family that we learn the most important things, particularly concerning values. If we want the Francophone community and the French language to be important, that's a value that we have to transmit to our children within the family.
We spoke a little about exogamous marriages and concerns on that subject. However, when the Fédération des parents francophones de Colombie-Britannique made its presentation, it didn't talk about the parents of children born in exogamous unions or about how to provide direct assistance to families in promoting the French language at home. We talked about child care centres; I say yes, child care centres occupy an important place, but that's not the key to success. If children can speak French or learn French in child care centres, that's part of a solution, but it isn't the entire solution, because, if the French language isn't considered important in the family or isn't the first language in the family, we'll lose what we've gained in the child care centres.
I'd like to know your strategies for working directly with families, particularly exogamous families, because that's where the French language must be promoted. We'd like to assist in promoting the French language, our culture, in the family. That's my question.