Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for appearing.
I'd like to congratulate Mr. Scrimger for his promotion within the department.
I am disappointed that successive governments of different stripes have set targets with respect to the number of bilingual students in Canada and that we've consistently failed to meet those targets. I think this is an incredibly important issue and a long-term problem that we have. At this relatively quiet time in our country's unity, it's the type of thing I think we should put a lot more effort into.
My question is why we are not hitting these targets, why we are going in the opposite direction. Is it a question of money? Is it a question of the way these federal and provincial agreements have been structured? Is it a question of something else? Why are we not hitting these targets?