Under the federal-provincial bilateral agreements for minority-language education, with which you are very familiar, there are always three funding streams. The first concerns what we call basic French, and that funding, according to the agreements with the provinces, must be added to the core funding that the provinces are already supposed to provide for their curriculum. Then there is the funding stream for immersion and, lastly, the funding for minority language schools. However, in many provinces, we can see on the ground that the proportion of funding allocated by the provinces to minority language schools is not even close to being equal to the proportion of students in those schools. So these students are at a systematic disadvantage.
If I'm not mistaken, in my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a case is making its way through the courts because the Fédération des francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador got angry about this issue.
The rest of the federal funding, once it gets into the provincial school system, gets lost in the wilderness. We see that funding ending up being used as core funding rather than additional funding, when the provinces are supposed to add it to the funding they already provide to their provincial school systems. So, if the provinces were honest about how they use funding from the federal government, perhaps we would have less of a problem when it comes to things like waiting lists for immersion programs, which you mentioned and which are overflowing everywhere.