Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My name is René Arseneault, and I'm the member of Parliament for Madawaska—Restigouche, in northern New Brunswick. I am a proud Acadian.
I have a lot of questions for you, but your presentations were so clear that we're beginning to get a pretty good idea of how our report might look, following our tour around western Canada.
I want to try to get away somewhat from the kinds of questions we've been asking you. I would have liked to come back to them, but I won't have time.
Yesterday we heard that in British Columbia, school boards also seem to be independent of one another, and I must say, that surprises me. There is no single curriculum used across Alberta, from north to south and east to west. That's my understanding.
Are all the school boards independent? They can decide whether or not to offer French classes. Is that right?