Thank you for your question. I would like to clarify one thing. There were no French-language school boards in Ontario prior to 1998. The Education Act only provided for French-language sections within English school boards. It is important to remember as well that all of this occurred only 10 years ago. In Ottawa, it was different, because there was a Francophone governance; but in the rest of the province, there were only English school boards. In 1998, the entire tax collection system was reviewed and four systems—English, French, Catholic and public—were set up in Ontario and given equitable funding. Those four systems have been in place since 1998.
You reminded me of the Canadian Heritage programs that often bring together culture and the education community through school-community centres. There are a number of them in Canada. In Ontario, because we are lucky enough to have some projects underway, we do not have many such centres. However, I think the whole question of infrastructure should be reviewed to allow our school boards, in more isolated areas—through a partnership such as that one—to set up a facility where they could meet with students and members of French-speaking community.
As regards infrastructure, our boards have developed 15-year plans to meet the needs of their target population. We have projections of the student population for the next 15 years and, every five years, we submit a capital assets plan to the Ministry of Education for the five years to follow. If you like, we could certainly share that information with you and make you aware of our requirements in terms of school facilities in each of the regions of Ontario.