Absolutely. I very much appreciate that.
If I have time, Mr. Chair, I have one quick question for Professor Dicks.
Professor Dicks, I much appreciated your comments. When we hear that grade 1 French immersion is not available in the one officially bilingual province, it's a shocker. I remember as a former school trustee reading a paper in the early 2000s which you probably are well acquainted with. It basically said that if you want to achieve the best possible results in French immersion, you need to start the programming in grade 4. In my school division, where I was a chair, a policy chair, and you name it, we never did that. There were a number of reasons.
I'm curious about your perspective. Are you aware of that research? Was that the basis for acting on it or changing the level?