Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Quebecois wants to pay tribute to the hundred or so francophone parents from outside Quebec who met in Ottawa over the weekend to work on putting in place a French language education project in provinces where English is the language of the majority.
These parents are showing unfailing determination in spite of the major difficulties they face: continuing to send their children to French schools, obliging them to take long bus rides to school, uprooting them, investing time and energy in trying to compensate the lower level of education provided. These are the kind of problems francophone parents and their children are facing daily if they want to continue living in French in a predominantly English speaking country.
This is another attempt by the Commission nationale des parents francophones to give parents the tools they need to have their children educated in French in Canada. The Bloc Quebecois salutes the tenacity and perseverance of the Commission nationale des parents francophones and its members.