I would like to say that bilingualism is not something that ends after high school.
It's lifelong work. It's something you have to continue to work at throughout your entire life. Reaching the end of high school and receiving that certificate of bilingualism is great and receiving a certain grade is great, but if you don't have opportunities beyond high school to keep honing and using your French, and seeing the value of having that French, then you lose it and the certificate means nothing and the grade means nothing. You're not going to have access to the kinds of economic benefits such as employment opportunities, which we talk about as being one of the reasons that people should maintain their French or stay in French immersion.
That being said, as Jennifer was saying, there need to be more reasons given to students and adults to keep up with their French, opportunities to interact within Canada with other French communities or—
I think my time is being cut off. No?