Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I also want to thank our three witnesses for their participation.
My first question is for Mr. Termote and concerns the importance of the presence of French. You divided this into two parts: a public environment and a private environment. I'd like to hear what you have to say about the second part, the private environment, in the home, as you said.
I'm going to ask you a question, Mr. Termote. Can you help us, as parliamentarians… I share your opinion on the development of the French language, which starts in the home, and in childhood, preschool-age children before they enter primary school.
The government is implementing a program to provide child care centres across Canada. I don't know whether there are any plans at this time to require the provinces to provide francophone child care centres in the francophone minority regions. Would that be an option, and could you suggest other ways to introduce young children to the French language from birth? It seems to me that, if you're introduced to it, you adopt it for life.