Yes, we are being consulted, but we are treated the same as immersion schools. The francophone population in our communities is growing rapidly and we often have to prove this in order to justify our needs. This is where the censuses are extremely important. Despite 30 years of education and school management in French, there is still a kind of skepticism. We are asked why, if the francophone population is actually growing, they are not attending our schools.
So yes, we are being consulted, but it is never easy to debate how to divide it up between what is going to be for the immersion schools and what is going to be ours. It is still very difficult.