Yes, that aspect is important and would help us.
As our local university, the University of Sudbury, is bilingual, the priorities of the majority often take precedence over those of the minority.
Unfortunately, as a result of its financial problems, the University of Sudbury invoked the CCAA, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. Several French language programs were eliminated, even though they were viable.
We would like to restore our economic leverage. As francophones, we want francophones, for and with francophones, to choose the interesting programs we should be offering. That would make us a more prominent and stronger economic stakeholder in our community.
It would also enable us to retain our young people.
Currently, we've been losing young francophones who have been going to Ottawa, where there is another bilingual university, the University of Ottawa.
Many young people have left the region, and those who leave our region often don't come back. There lies the danger, because we want to keep our young people here.
Moreover, if we had more control over the services we can provide, we could attract more francophone immigrants.