I visited the Pavillon Gustave-Dubois at the École canadienne-française in Saskatoon last January. I must say that I taught there at one point. I left 10 or 12 years ago. However, I noticed that the school population included people who were francophone, even though they were not born in Canada. That is a very poignant example. I'm not talking about Saskatchewan as a whole, but about a place that I know well and where I went.
On the other hand, in the Pontiac region in Quebec, which is one of 125 constituencies in the National Assembly, French is losing ground. We even see that assimilation is doing its work. This issue is closer to me both politically and geographically. Earlier you talked about learning French in the case of people who used to use it but have forgotten it, as well as of new Canadians who want to learn it. However, it must not be forgotten that things often happen in English when people enter a workplace, at many locations in the federal public service, for example, or in private business, when you leave Gatineau and go to Ottawa. I'm not saying it's the same everywhere in Ottawa, but that's the current situation in a number of places.
Is there some way to coordinate efforts to enable these newcomers to retain or to learn French and to function, even though the labour market is mainly anglophone?