That's good advice. If there's an area where we can get an edge or find more, I would be very happy to take your lead on that.
As it stands today, approximately 7,000 of 40,000 in the system have declared themselves to be fluent and thus able to provide services to the level that we would require them to. I have to say, though, that we're just processing this now. We expect this number to grow from 40,000 to 60,000 before we start looking around for where we can find the most talented that we can find.
So we'll take a look. If there is merit in targeting some more areas, we will certainly see if we can do that. It certainly wouldn't hurt to look a little more and see if we can get those numbers up a bit higher.
One thing I can say is that although it's never enough, we were highly encouraged by the number. You know, in our province, where the percentage of francophones is quite small compared to the rest of the provinces--it is a large number, but small by comparison--this was a very large number for us on first go-round. So we're very encouraged by it, largely because we have obligations and we want to do a good job. But if we had more, that would be even better.