Thank you all for your remarks.
I also want to thank the witnesses.
I'm a Franco‑Albertan living in British Columbia. I have two daughters and a son, but I'll talk about my daughters. One of them was enrolled in an immersion program. It went well and she continued to study in French at the post‑secondary level. However, my other daughter wasn't able to learn French. She was the 42nd student to register for the 40 places available. We had the right to send our children to a school in the French school board. However, I didn't really consider this possibility. The school was an hour's bus ride away, whereas the immersion school was three minutes away.
Do you think that families in similar situations should have the right to send their children to an immersion school?