The federation has been working for a year now to prepare literacy upgrading plans. We have plans for each province and territory that include the costs and the needs. We have thus done our work. We have plans. We can present them, explain them and discuss them in order to put infrastructures in place, prepare tools and support the people who will provide these services.
To follow up on what Ms. Beaulieu said a while ago, people want services in French, but people need to be able one day to provide these services in French. Unless we work on literacy for francophones, whether at school or elsewhere, what will happen one day to people like nurses, who will be providing health care services in French, and the answer is that there will no longer be any services in French because there will be no francophones left to deliver them. Things therefore need to begin in early childhood, continued at school, and in adult literacy programs, by keeping parents sufficiently educated to support the family. We have these remedial plans.
At the moment, enrolment is declining in francophone schools because students do not have the capacity to learn on their own in French. They are no longer sufficiently skilled in French to go to French school. Francophone schools could handle more francophones—the pool is there—but they are unable to reach them. There will soon be no one left to provide services in French. We need to support volunteers, and upgrading plans are required. We have them, we are prepared to show them to you and to help you from this standpoint.