Indeed, this is a great opportunity, however we've been told that there aren't any funds for the time being. The future is uncertain and we still don't have a planning committee. It's now or never. We have to come up with projects that will get people excited so that in 25 or 30 years, linguistic duality will not be an intellectual or theoretical concept, but rather an everyday reality. This is the challenge we're faced with.
Take young allophones for example. Let's say I am Chinese and I arrive in British Columbia. My mother tongue is Mandarin and I will attend English school. What would motivate me to learn French?