As you know, Ms. Lalonde, when you were the Ontario Minister of Francophone Affairs, the planning board for a French-language university in Ontario tabled a structural document that provided an overview of what the Université de l'Ontario français would look like, and also sketched out a network of small Ontario francophone teaching institutions. These of course included the University of Sudbury, Saint Paul University, Dominican University College and the Université de Hearst.
At the time, these small universities already wanted to join together to share some resources, whether digital or otherwise, but nothing further has happened there yet, because the UOF is still in the implementation phase.
However, Université Hearst and Laurentian University have been working closely together since the establishment of the UOF. My colleague Denis Berthiaume could tell us more about that. These two universities have been working very effectively together and have been thinking about different ways of doing so, not only for programs but resources too.
So it can be done, but these educational institutions would have to reach a substantial critical mass for the network to be a strong one.