First, since 2002, New Brunswick has had to make itself known in Canada as a bilingual province where people can speak French. So there has been a lot of awareness in that regard. Francophones are afraid of going out into a world they don't know. So this is taking time to start up. The first figures we had in 2002 were negligible. Now, from year to year, we see the figures and applications constantly doubling.
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