Mr. Harvey, not so long ago, I was travelling to Ottawa by car and listening on the radio to people who work for the universities, who are involved in recruitment outside the country, in international recruitment. I am of course involved in the university field. I quickly understood that the francophone section of the University of Ottawa, the francophone universities in Quebec, and the Acadian universities were competing with each other for international students and that it was a question of survival for the universities. I was surprised to learn that that was the case and that it was a matter of survival, even in Quebec.
I am dying to ask the following question: Do you have any statistics on whether Canadian universities in English Canada are also suffering from a lack of funding and must engage in international recruitment, or is this situation specific to Canadian francophones?