More briefly I will say number one is cultural and linguistic exchanges for French second language learners. I always say they have to make the French connection on their own. They have to have intrinsic motivation that comes from them, not because someone's telling them to do it, and exchanges are a great way for that motivation to happen.
Our second recommendation is post-secondary learning opportunities. We don't want our students to just go through the system that's been afforded to them in Canada, become functionally bilingual or better, and then to drop it. This is happening every year.
The 150th anniversary celebration could be this opportunity to leave a legacy. If we can build the knowledge that these programs, bilingual programs, French post-secondary programs, exist across Canada, this will leave a legacy on the bigger picture of our founding languages.
I would also say beyond my recommendations from what I've heard today we have to include our first nation languages, not to mention the hundreds of languages that are spoken in Canada every day, which has been a lasting legacy for—I'm not going to say how many years; I'm not an historian—a very long time. It goes way beyond the two founding languages. I think we have to find ways to incorporate that.
Third, there's the youth council, youth voice dialogue.
We have to move past the two solitudes. Youngsters must be the spokespeople for all of that and see for themselves. That is the third recommendation.
Let them lead the way.
In terms of ceremonies, all ceremonies in some aspect or another, no matter if they're in Red Deer, Bathurst, or wherever, should be bilingual. It's who we are.