I would say that in the anglophone sector, most of our students arrive already speaking English, but that's the majority, because we do have a strong francophone community that frequents our schools. It depends on what region you're in.
For example, in the region of Joliette in Quebec, a significant portion of your population will actually be francophone, and they will often come to school not speaking any English, so we have maybe the reverse situation compared with Nova Scotia. However, the majority of our students do arrive already fluent in English.
We do focus, however, on ensuring that our students become as bilingual as possible. In terms of early childhood education, a priority for us would be to ensure that before the students come to the public school system, whether they start school at grade four or come to our schools earlier via the day care system, they would be bilingual. That would be a priority for us.
Most of our schools in the anglophone sector are offering 50/50 in terms of francophone and anglophone curriculum within the school system. That's not only important to your school boards as a basic school regulation for curriculum in courses, it's what the community is requesting, because these are decisions that are locally based. It's the governing boards at each of your schools that vote on what your subject time allocation will be.
I can't see that it would be any different if we're moving toward early childhood education. If that was something that would be destined to be managed by.... As Sylvia mentioned earlier, we're talking about accountability, and the reality is that within the Quebec education framework system, we don't have our own group to manage our own requirements and our own needs. Within the education ministerial responsibilities, there is no anglophone group. There is no particular distribution area for us where we can say that these are the things that we need, but that would be something that would be very important for us. It would allow us to not only improve our success rates but also improve the level of bilingualism that we've set as a priority for us in the province.