I'd like to talk about the program that Marie-Ève taught and which has since been cut back, in spite of her determination and the compromises that some families were prepared to make. This year, a family in Dawson came and registered their children at l'école Émilie-Tremblay. They were two boys, one in grade 7 and the other in grade 9. The mother, who is a rights holder, had decided to re-immerse her two sons in Francophone culture, since they did not speak a word of French. Now they attend l'école Émilie-Tremblay and are really being francisized. The father lives in Dawson and the mother comes to Whitehorse with her children so that they can benefit from French first-language education. That is the kind of compromise that some families are prepared to make.
