Official Languages committee  I just wanted to say something about speech therapists. They are English-speaking. Sometimes they come to the day care centre, but it's all in English. There are no Francophones. We are lucky that francization measures are in place and that someone from the school comes to see us

Official Languages committee  I bring in Francophones so that we can speak French, but where speech therapists are concerned, it's difficult to explain to a child the difference between French and English. For the educator, it's also difficult. That's what I meant.

Official Languages committee  First of all, our day care workers all have diplomas and possess all the necessary qualifications. Second of all, the ratio is lower. It is 1 to 4 for infants, 1 to 6 for children 18 months of age, and 1 to 8 for children over 3. As you can see, nature has a strong presence here.

Official Languages committee  Cultiver l'avenir is a program that--

Official Languages committee  We work closely with the AFY and the SOFA. We submit a lot of applications for grants for our programs, such as Cultiver l'avenir, for which we have submitted an application. That application has been accepted, meaning that once every two weeks, someone comes to help us with the

Official Languages committee  The cost is $50 a day. For children under the age of three, it's $750 a month, and for children 3 years of age and over, it's $700 a month.

Official Languages committee  I don't know.

Official Languages committee  It may be a little more expensive at our day care centre. But we have already lowered the prices. I think it's important to mention that it's not easy to find qualified people who speak French in the territory. The current members of our team are all Francophone with level 3 qual

Official Languages committee  Yes, there are a lot of people from Quebec.

Official Languages committee  Yes, it's more expensive to bring them here.

Official Languages committee  At this point, I believe there are about ten.

Official Languages committee  In the past, I couldn't say. However, I want to tell you something that I neglected to mention earlier. There are a lot of exogamous families and when we refuse to take their children, they immediately turn to the Anglophone community. We manage the only French-language day care

Official Languages committee  Some are, but it doesn't work the same way as in Quebec. Some do receive subsidies, yes. That is our case.

Official Languages committee  Thank you. My name is Isabelle St-Gelais and I went to Mont-de-La-Salle school, in Laval.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, that's nice of you to say that.