The entire network adopts an overall development plan. Participation in the process is open to all citizens. The plan is spread over a five-year period. Priorities are set, but we are never able to have a true impact on the development of the community. There are parents whose children are enrolled in a school but who do not have access to any other type of service because nothing is available to them, be it services provided for preschoolers, for health care or communication.
Currently, in Saskatchewan, Radio-Canada is not available to most French-speaking listeners because the CRTC decisions have resulted in our lack of access to satellite radio. It doesn't matter if we are in Regina or in Zenon Park, we don't have these services.
So how can we have any type of impact on the priorities of families who have a type of French-language school but who are denied other services? It would not be entirely truthful. When priorities are managed in that way, we lose sight of what really matters.