Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Maddix and Mr. Paul, you have provided some clear details on the various ways to teach French in a minority setting. Education is quite fragmented in the sense that there are core French programs, immersion programs, French as a first language programs and, in provinces such as Ontario, a Catholic school system and a public school system.
Students in my city, Toronto, have a lot of choice. Sometimes there is no real concept of what a rights holder is , in that French is often taught as a first language in an immersion school for non-francophones. They are legally entitled to that. These young students may attend French-language schools even if they are not francophone. It is a legal issue that concerns the route that students take to go to school in the morning, for example.
Do you think it undermines students' education to attend a French-language school when they should be going to an immersion school? That is often more or less the case in the same community or region. We have a mix of students. Does that detract from the experience of one group or the other? I do not know whether you have had that experience.