Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning, Mr. Pelletier, Mr. Charbonneau.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was working at the Fédération de la jeunesse canadienne-française, I had the pleasure of piloting a study on access to postsecondary education in French outside Quebec. One of the major factors that puts postsecondary level education at a disadvantage, in the case of both FL1 and FL2, that is, French as a first language, or language of use, and French as a second language, related to the use of the money that was at that time allocated out of the Department of the Secretary of State, now Canadian Heritage, to the provinces with francophone minorities. In some cases, the money did not go to the right place; in others, it was not used for immersion or for French as a second language. I am thinking of British Columbia, for example, where we could not identify any transfer to education.
I am going to ask Mr. Charbonneau to answer first, given that this relates directly to the institutions he represents. I would then like to hear Mr. Pelletier. These days, does 100% of the funds transferred to the provinces with francophone minorities go to the intended recipients, that is, the universities, whether it be Université Sainte-Anne, the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, the Faculté Saint-Jean or another institution? Is there money that is not getting to them?