For us, the key is to be able to live in French on a daily basis. We have spent a lot of time in these last 30 years building our network of schools. We have more than 700 francophone schools in the country. That is excellent, but the work must continue. We are going to need daycares in French and post-secondary education in French. We must be able to go out and live in our language and our culture in cultural spaces like that.
In terms of the Francophonie in Canada, the work will never be finished. But the investments in recent years and in the recent budget were needed and have gone to the right places. We still have some catching up to do and we have to think about what we will need to do after the pandemic. Soon, our children will not have been in school for more than a year and a half. We have not been living in our own language on a daily basis in public. So the investments are going to the right place, but we are going to have to continue and maintain the concept of “by and for". In all respects, it is essential to have institutions of all kinds run by the minority.