Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for being here with us today.
Mr. Leclair, I really appreciated your presentation because you provided quite specific recommendations on certain programs. These are quite independent federal programs with which we can avoid this accountability problem; that is to say that we can transfer funding to the provinces and ensure that it is included in total funding for education. However, this funding often gets lost, although, when independent programs are managed at the federal level, I think it is possible to trace the funds.
You spoke, for example, about exchange programs and university internships. A lot of your ideas concerned older students, not that young, and I believe that relates somewhat to the problem I have often seen, the problem of students who drop out. Some students start out in immersion programs but become somewhat rebellious teenagers and sometimes drop out.
What can we do to encourage those students? What incentives could we offer them to make them stay in immersion or French programs?
Ms. Kenny, I believe you have noticed that French is often the language of ambition in regions such as Toronto and other regions of the country. However, there is this problem of students dropping out. How can we really encourage teenagers to stay in immersion programs?