Can I tell you how happy I am that you asked that question? That is one of the new frontiers for francophones communities in Ontario, as far as I am concerned. Early childhood is the key.
Under section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, we gained the right to education and school governance, but there is still another issue. We are very pleased to see that provincial governments across the country are starting to include early childhood in the ministries of education. That is the case in Ontario, New Brunswick, and elsewhere. It goes by different names, but its importance is emerging.
For the survival of francophone communities outside Quebec, access to French-language early childhood services is crucial for French-language schools in the long term. We must focus on early childhood, because the assimilation we always talk about begins there.