Let me add that when the federal government agreed to implement immersion courses, there was a great deal of publicity. There was publicity to promote immersion, etc. When Franco-Saskatchewanian or francophone schools were created all over Canada, not much Canadian publicity was done to stress the fact that this was the road that francophones should take if they want to remain bilingual.
Our people were given the perception that immersion was sufficient for francophones. We must destroy this myth. Unfortunately, we were made to believe all kinds of things in the past, we were deprived of our rights and we were prevented from standing up for them. We were victims of oppression maintained by political decisions at times. We feel oppressed. How can the oppressed stand up for their rights? We could stand up and fight, but sometimes the partly assimilated francophones stand up and argue against us. Unfortunately, we are divided by this.
There is a historical background to all this. We have learned a lot since obtaining French education, but we must go further. We need post-secondary education programs to develop our population, because when people leave, they do not necessarily return.