Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in my travels as MLA and as chair of the Special Committee reviewing the Official Languages Act, one of the biggest complaints I receive is that funding allocated to schools for language teaching always gets used up in other areas of responsibility because the schools are continually running out of funds to deliver their programs. They are dipping into what should be going for language teaching and putting the funding into other areas of the school. The teaching of language is not legislated and it is not a major requirement, but for those courses that are legislated and have to have it, there does not seem to be enough money and schools are taking it from other pots of money.
Can the Minister tell me if he feels that the funding provided to schools is sufficient, and if it is sufficient, why are they dipping into other financial resources to top off what they are getting? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.