I want to point out that our organization, a French-language school board outside of Quebec, has not existed for very long. We acquired our rights following many battles involving governance rights.
Before that, we were far more involved with anglophones. We had advisory committees. We were very busy during our development. Like any emerging school board, we needed infrastructure, organization and a certain level of autonomy.
We had priorities during those years. However, we must not forget what happened a certain number of years ago. The fact that the long-form census was suddenly no longer mandatory caught us unawares to some degree.
All this to say that the questions that were not raised were not on the agenda of school boards because they had a lot of things to organize. Could they have been asked 10, 15 or 20 years ago? You are certainly right on that, but it did not happen.