Official Languages committee  It's called the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities. I don't know what year it was in, but it got a lump sum of $10 million that was placed in a trust fund, and the centre operates on the interest generated from this trust fund. So one of the options would b

Official Languages committee  Thank you.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  The only existing program involves interprovincial applications for research projects, and it has relatively little funding.

Official Languages committee  I'll say it again. It's to have permanent annual funding that is indexed to inflation, in addition to existing programs. That's the only way we'll be able to maintain the financial health of our institutions and contribute to the vitality of francophone communities outside Quebec

Official Languages committee  Yes. We currently have nearly 5,000 students, but we have the capacity for nearly 8,000.

Official Languages committee  Some 30% to 33% of foreign students later remain in New Brunswick. Unfortunately, 50% of those students leave New Brunswick after three to five years. One of the difficulties we've observed is their limited knowledge of English as a second language. That's why we'll be introducin

Official Languages committee  With respect to infrastructure, what we need in the short term is an upgrade to our technological instruments so we can simultaneously offer in‑person and distance learning. By harmonizing that capability across our three campuses, we could also share courses and cooperate more w

Official Languages committee  We'd see students leaving for Quebec, in particular, and a decline in the number of graduates returning to New Brunswick to contribute to the province's economy and professional labour needs. The Université de Moncton can play a major francizing role. I think we can contribute t

Official Languages committee  Generally speaking, I would say no. Many of my colleagues who are presidents of English-language universities have trust funds at their disposal that enable them to offset their annual deficits and feel less pressure to make cuts in order to balance their budgets. The Université

Official Languages committee  I'm talking about the ability of graduates to contribute to trust funds that are reserved for operating funding. The Université de Moncton has approximately $100 million in trust funds, but 99% of those funds are allocated to scholarships for students.

Official Languages committee  We can't compare ourselves to the anglophone universities. When we're forced to make cuts in the range of 3% and sometimes 4%, one of the priorities that's definitely neglected is preventive maintenance of and improvements to the quality of our facilities and infrastructure. We a

Official Languages committee  One of the recommendations I made in my remarks was that, in order to avoid that situation, we need to secure a permanent, minimum monetary contribution that could be indexed to inflation. That would help address increasing annual costs, at least in part. We're unable to offset t

Official Languages committee  We used to have some flexibility on tuition costs since ours were the lowest in the Atlantic provinces. In the last three years, however, they've risen to the average level of tuition fees, and francophone students now have the option of studying elsewhere since we no longer have

Official Languages committee  Yes, a change is needed. We'll try to make administrative efficiency gains, particularly through centralization. We want the campuses to share more courses and the courses perhaps to be offered as well by postsecondary educational institutions and other provinces. We need a drac