Welcome to the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Pursuant to standing Order 108, we are studying second official language immersion programs offered in Canada.
In front of us this morning we have the Quebec English School Boards Association, represented by Mr. Birnbaum, Madam Stein Day, and Madam Dénommée. Welcome to all of you.
Before we begin with an opening statement, there have been discussions among all the members from all the parties of this committee, and because we only have one group in front of us today we will adjourn at approximately 4:45 in order to allow all members of the committee to ask questions and do one complete round. At that point we'll adjourn because normally we would have three groups in front of us, and so in the interests of time—