First, I should explain that the University of Regina has existed since the end of the 1960s or the early 1970s, and that since that time, the campus has had a francophone presence.
The problem—and this is the challenge we are facing—is that for over 30 years now, the campus has had no francophone roots, because the heads of the university, who are mainly anglophones, have not been made aware or are not sensitive to the importance of developing French.
Why then does this work? Because it has to work. This time, the community is the one who built the institute. In the past, the university imposed or, at the very least, modeled an institutional framework within the university. This was a university institution with departments and programs. This time, a completely different approach has been taken. The community said that this wasn't working to its benefit, that it had worked to create an educational institution and that it now needed to have access to post-secondary education. So, the community proposed an approach to the university, and following negotiations, this was successful.