Canadian Parents for French is uniquely positioned to help work with all orders of government and, indeed, with folks right on the ground. As I said earlier on, we're a collection of parents from coast to coast to coast, primarily anglophone parents who have made a decision to put their children in French immersion or core French.
We have chapters across this country in almost every community in Canada. We work with municipalities in offering French camps. We have good relationships with our municipal governments. We have good relationships with school boards, francophone, public and private, depending on the jurisdiction. We have a branch in every province. Their mission and mandate is
to work closely with the provincial government.
They work a lot with education ministries and ensure that we're linked in there. Our job as a national board is to play the quarterback role and work with the federal government and our partners at a national level.
If I were to give a theme, I'd say that French is alive and well, and French is something we are to be very proud of.
Again, what's different from the 100th anniversary celebration, which I was not around for, is that it was a bricks-and-mortar legacy. I think this is an opportunity for us to have a people legacy in this 150th anniversary and build on the strengths of the people we have.
Again, we have an increasing number of Canadians who identify as being bilingual. If we were to give you a stretch goal, French language education across the country should be a right for every child.