Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for joining us.
I apologize for being late. I'm going to make amends. I was in a different Parliament building. No one but me is responsible.
Mr. Dion, as I understand it, the situation of francophones in Saskatchewan is good, but you need additional tools to improve access to services in French. Can you put that in perspective?
Earlier, the executive director of the Fédération des parents francophones de la Colombie-Britannique said that there were 4,000 children in that province aged four and under whose mother tongue is French, but there were only 450 spaces in preschool centres that provide services in French.
Does Saskatchewan have the same ratio between the number of clients and the number of spaces? What I'm hearing is that the cause of the problem isn't a lack of clientele. Rather, it is a lack of structures and infrastructure.
Can you explain the situation to me?