Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Professor Genesee, for coming in today.
Some of your recommendations are consistent with what some other witnesses have said before the committee in terms of providing some resources for the provinces, who really have to deliver French immersion programs, especially for school-age children. I'm interested in what you said about post-secondary, and there are other opportunities for immersion that we need to look at.
One of the nubs of the whole question around French immersion is what the role of the federal government is in all this. Canada is a complex federation, in a way; we don't even have a federal ministry of education. You talked about the promotion of the development of pedagogies and providing resources for communities and school boards. You mentioned that you looked at places in the world, such as the U.S. and Europe, where they have a system where the federal government works collaboratively with lower levels of government and provides these resources in a form of shared service.
Are there some models we could look at to find something that seems to work well?