For some time now, Ms. Faitelson-Weiser, the committee has been discussing an interesting issue. We would like to know why post-secondary institutions cannot train more graduates who can speak French and English. Among other things, this would help the federal public service provide service in English or French to citizens of this country. The universities have been singled out. Perhaps I should not say that, but we have looked at what the universities are doing. As Mr. Brennick just said, the school boards and the departments of education are also very much involved in this.
Do you not think it would be preferable for universities—and I do want to choose my words carefully here—to have their students improve their proficiency in their second language, French, by studying in a university where French is the first language, such as Laval University, the Université du Québec en Outaouais, all the universities in the Université du Québec's network, and also the Université de Moncton? In that way, students would speak French in all their courses, and would experience genuine immersion both on campus and off, in the community where they are living.
Do you not think that this is where the focus should be, on French-language universities in French-speaking communities, so that anglophones will be able to work in French once they graduate?