Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I was listening with great attention and pleasure to the presentation on the statistical side. Before I begin, I would like to point out that Statistics Canada does not have information to measure access to these programs, their capacity, waiting lists or best practices. These are essential elements, because how you interpret the data is influenced by many other factors that affect the conclusions you draw from the statistical analysis.
I'm an engineer, and for that I'm telling you that statistics are very important. But if you don't have all the elements of the problem, you will not be able to resolve the problem. This is making me question something.
We have the students who are learning French, and from the data you presented they are dropping out at a certain age and their level of French is going down, but what about the teachers? What about the statistics on the teachers and how these correlate with the drop-out rates and the maintenance of the French language, and so on? Can you answer this?