Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thanks to our guests for being here this morning.
I wanted to talk to you about French-language education. I live in Toronto, where a smorgasbord of choices of school boards and francophone education programs is offered. It's quite phenomenal. There is a public francophone school board and a Catholic francophone school board. The anglophone system also offers French immersion programs.
Having a French-language education is genuinely perceived as an asset in Toronto, the country's old anglophone fortress. There are so many requests for French-language education there that many parents, without being rights holders, register their children at francophone school board schools. This creates some conflict among parents because francophones are seeing some dilution in the quality of education provided. Consequently, some children who don't speak a word of French, like their parents, attend French-language schools.
What are your recommendations or observations based on your school board experience?