Thank you for your question, Mr. Gourde.
As I mentioned in the presentation, one of the projects with considerable spinoffs is the school-community centres that were built in Prince Edward Island. It started with setting up the French-language education system in Prince Edward Island. As you know, Prince Edward Island is a small area, but there are still about 30,000 people of Acadian and francophone origin.Today, there are only about 5,600 who still speak French.
These school-community centres are new. Four centres have been built since 2000. Momentum was created, and promotion and awareness have increased in all the regions in Prince Edward Island. We are once again introducing French to the Acadians who had been assimilated. The situation is still delicate because we are in a sea of anglophones in Prince Edward Island. Acadians and francophones represent about 4% of the island's population.
It is important to continue. We still need support and assistance to continue our efforts in reversing assimilation and introducing French to our people who have lost their mother tongue, unfortunately.