A little earlier, you said that immersion was one thing, but that, if we focused solely on that issue to the exclusion of our francophone institutions, we'd have another problem. There would be fewer and fewer francophones when it came to offering services. When you live in a minority setting, if you don't have the tools to develop, you won't be interested in continuing to study in your language. One of my sisters lives in Winnipeg, and my three nieces are francophones. They have an accent, but they're working hard to retain their French. On the other hand, it would definitely be more difficult if there wasn't a francophone unit, a francophone teaching institution. Francophones would be headed toward English and would ultimately go back to immersion. That's definitely not what we want.
On March 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.