Looking well into the future.... That seems to be one of the real nubs in our community. It is one of the things that generates a lot of questions and helps to accentuate marginalization, particularly of the English-speaking black community, which we serve at BCRC.
I don't really think you would need more funding. Particularly because we're referring to Quebec, I think there needs to be much more openness to allowing more people into the programs they have already. There are lots and lots of second language programs in Quebec, but they're only for specific people. They're not for everyone.
There is, within Quebec, a culture that has ignored the population that existed in Quebec for decades. People who are served by language services are usually those who have come post-Bill 101. There are generations of blacks in the English-speaking community who have no access to French language services and to gaining French language competency. They continue, again, generation after generation, to be marginalized. That's very unfortunate, but that's a reality.