Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to thank our witnesses for being here today.
In your opening remarks, Mr. Brennick, you said that special education students are discouraged from learning a second language. Today, there are many special education students. Do you have any information or statistics that show whether all special education students or anglophone special education students are discouraged from learning French, or whether this applies to francophone students?
I would like to mention a second point. I know a new schoolteacher. I do not know whether this is true throughout the country, but in Ontario, new teachers have to pick up contracts here and there to teach science, mathematics, and all sorts of subjects. The teacher about whom I am speaking is anglophone. At one point, he was asked to teach French in a school. That would have been like asking me to teach Chinese. So he gave up and left. I would like to know whether it happens often that anglophone or francophone teachers are teaching the other language without being qualified to do so, and whether this discourages students from learning the other language.