First, we would like to be a stakeholder in the negotiations regarding the official languages in education program, or OLEP, agreements. The agreements are reached with the provincial government, but we aren't involved. I'd like a seat at the table so we can take part in the negotiations and discuss our priorities.
Second, we should establish what we need in order to have francophone schools that are on an equitable level with the majority schools. I use the word “equitable”; that could mean something as simple as the travel time to school. The usual travel time to a local school in the anglophone school boards is approximately an hour; it's about an hour and 20 minutes for the francophone schools. So there's already a disadvantage in going to a francophone school in Prince Edward Island, which we don't think should be the case.
We think that OLEP funding could help us put the francophone education system on an equitable footing with the majority language system.