There are still not enough properly trained bilingual teachers. I have been in the educational field for a long time. As regards the short-term programs that Ms. Faitelson-Weiser referred to earlier, our centre has had an agreement or an arrangement with the Collège de Jonquière linguistic centre for many years now. We have done this for two reasons. First of all, we can provide a three-week training session to improve the pedagogical and socio-cultural language training of our teachers. Since they work all year long, they can take this three-week course in the summer. We have benefited from this training a great deal, as have our teachers and students, which is essential for us.
We have to enhance the value of French. We are all speaking from our personal experience. My daughter took advantage of the program subsidized by the Government of Canada. She worked as a caregiver in the Montreal region for a summer. She worked with young people. A Quebec girl came to our region and held a similar job and lived at my home. These two young people had this experience thanks to the government's subsidy. This experience has enriched their personal development. But aside from this development, they improved their level of language. This is the type of thing that strengthens the acquisition of a language and makes the experience real and tangible.