Yes, absolutely. It is very difficult for us to attract competent teachers in both languages. To bring in those francophones, we are now doing most of our recruiting from French language universities around Quebec.
In our school board, it is absolutely required for all of my administration team to be fluently bilingual so that they can go out and do that recruitment in French. Nobody wants to do a job interview in the language that they're not 100% comfortable in, so we are doing the vast majority of our interviewing in French right now.
As for your community in northern Ontario, the English school board system in Quebec feels that we are the largest supporters and the largest contributors to the francization of Quebec. We are doing more for that than any other institution, public or private, and it's something that we take great pride in.