Thank you very much. You're very inspiring.
I'd like to speak to the witnesses from Manitoba about something that saddens me.
A great deal of effort has been made in elementary, postsecondary, college and university education to promote French-language instruction. However, once students enter the workforce they lose their proficiency in French after three, four, or five years.
Would there be a way of offering French-language workshops or otherwise motivating these young workers to continue to practise their French? What's happened is that we have invested enormously in the francophone regions in the West, because lots of people wanted to learn French. But unfortunately, it doesn't take long for them to lose their proficiency in the language.