Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning, ladies.
What I am about to say amounts to stating the obvious. We are in a provincial area of jurisdiction. As federal members of Parliament, we cannot start telling Ontario how to manage its schools. We know what that resulted in in the past: Regulation 17, in 1912, which abolished French-language schools in Ontario. My parents were part of that generation. My father, who will soon be 91, was not able to continue his studies past Grade 8. Fortunately for him, he was in Hawkesbury, in Eastern Ontario, because Ontario government investigators didn't dare go there.