Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good morning once again. Thank you for being here today. As a new committee member, I learned a great deal from your presentations, and I thank you for that.
I have a question for Mr. Pelletier on national programs. The promotion of bilingualism is one thing, but I know that, to improve skills in one language, you have to have an opportunity to speak it. You said that these programs are very popular and that there could be further investment in them. Is the purpose of these programs only to promote exchange between anglophones and francophones, or do they also give people who live in a minority setting the opportunity to practise their language?