The federal government has always had a role to play in supporting francophone education in minority communities and in teaching French as a second language.
In 2019, we published a study on the shortage of immersion teachers. The study made a number of recommendations that were implemented.
The problem is that these efforts were inadequate. It's not by adding an additional education cohort here and there that the current gap will be closed. Other ways of closing the gap have to be found. Much more innovative approaches are needed to find new teachers or people who can work in education in support of teachers.
It's a societal issue. Teachers are in demand just about everywhere, whether in official language minority or majority communities.