Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome. It's great to have you here this morning.
Coming from the province of New Brunswick, Canada's only official language...and also being an educator, I have to reiterate the words that were said here this morning. I certainly saw, personally, an increase in English-speaking people putting children in schools for French as a second language and for French immersion. I see that the English-speaking people are trying more and more to become bilingual and to learn the French language as well as English.
With respect to the attraction, the Citizenship and Immigration Canada francophone minority communities steering committee favours French language post-secondary educational institutions as a means of increasing the number of francophone permanent residents. Do you regard this as a good strategy, and are English language institutions in Quebec doing the same thing for anglophone immigrants?