Funding is not necessarily part of my area of expertise. Perhaps Ms. Adam could answer that better than I.
We feel that the federal government could do more to support what the provincial government is doing, or to compensate for what it is not doing. We are aware of this potential competition between the two school systems. I, for example, when I began my education, my two teaching methodology areas were French as a first language and French as a second language. I began my career in French as a second language teacher, and then began teaching in francophone minority settings. There has always been competition. This competition is dangerous because there is a risk of losing teachers who truly care about French.
There's a big difference between the immersion program and French-language minority education. I'm not saying that one is better than the other, but there are noteworthy differences in terms of francophone identity-building and cultural transmission. It's much more than simply language, literature and things like that. It's much broader.