Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
We've done a lot of work. I think we've already moved forward in a number of areas. In other areas we'll see results in the coming months.
For instance, to free up francophone instructors, bilingual instructors, we've now contracted courses out of Borden and other areas so that we have more francophone instructors available. One specific example--and there are a number of them--is that we contracted out a course for firefighters, for instance, to one of the community colleges in an anglophone province. So we can run a francophone course earlier and we'll have the instructor. That's a specific example.
We've also done a significant awareness campaign. Next summer we are moving more francophone people to Borden. We're finishing the assessment. We will transfer more people.
I should mention, as was raised before, that from a statistics point of view we have 1,763 military personnel in Borden. And out of those--in Borden, in that anglophone community--we have 850 people who have declared French as their first official language. It's a significant proportion, considering the area on the base.
So we have a number, but we have areas that we're trying to solve. Obviously the base services are another area we're putting a lot of focus on, especially for the recruits who need initial services when they arrive. So the base hospital and pay services were getting special attention.