I want to speak to the matter of institutional atrophy.
It is important to understand that, in Saskatchewan, the Franco-Saskatchewanian community has no control over any post-secondary training institution. Therefore, it is extremely important for us to have an institution such as the Institut français in Regina.
We must also recognize that the universities jealously protect their autonomy. The only thing we have at the University of Regina is a community advisory committee, which has no control over the institute as such; it belongs to the University of Regina.
The next step will be to try to find ways of increasing the community's control over the institution within the university structure.
The University of Saskatchewan is limiting itself to a small modern languages department and is not offering anything else to the Franco-Saskatchewanian community.