In fact, Canada's two official languages, the English language and the French language, are spoken in the communities where we teach them. Ninety-nine per cent of the time, my children speak English, which means that they speak French 1% of the time. It is because of assimilation that they speak the languages of our country.
My son and my daughter called their grandmother mémère; they did not call her koohkoum. I encouraged them to speak French at home, but because my wife is an anglophone, we speak English more than anything else at home.
When we celebrate, we encourage our young Canadians. I'm thinking of the Métis Federation and an event called Back to Batoche. Their music, their stories, their dances, their songs, everything is in English. There is also some French, but there is nothing in our tongue, Michif. Nevertheless, we are beginning to encourage our young people.