Early childhood services are not offered in the official language of choice—I'm talking about French here. If we want to encourage people to learn a language in a minority situation, we need to start as early as possible. We also have to take into account the fact that there are a huge number of exogamous or mixed couples. We absolutely have to maximize the time they spend in a French environment before they start school, at the preschool level.
When there was a shortage of teachers in the past, a number of people who worked in the early childhood stream were requalified to become teachers. So the preschool centres were emptied out. As I just said, with respect to teachers, we have to find a way to go get people where they are. In my opinion, we should have a corridor across the country to recruit people able to work in the early childhood stream. Our early childhood efforts will pay off when kids start school.