Thank you.
I'd like to thank my colleague from Richmond Hill for his remarks. I, too, have an issue with the term “minority”, especially in language issues. The French and the English are founding members of this country. Although there are satellite communities scattered throughout this very vast country, what holds both communities together is language. The nuances that we're seeing here are really about the particulars of the Acadians, who have a very particular history, and anglophone Quebeckers have a very particular history that is different from anglophones outside of Quebec. I would hope that maybe we can start thinking about using other terminology other than “minorities”.
Another comment I would like to make is that a government's job really is not to spend money but to invest money. Ultimately, whether that investment comes back in terms of GDP, or finance, or cultural and social growth of that country, it is an investment. Every dollar is an investment. It's impossible to separate taxpayers from those who actually receive the services.
One of the things that I think
Ms. Enguehard mentioned the importance of protecting people's culture. That is really important in the anglophone community too. I come from a cultural community myself.
I would like to ask the people from CEDEC and our other participants what they have done to significantly improve the cultural aspect.
It's something that's apart from economic sustainability, but the culture of the people,
what you have done to maintain or improve that aspect?
Let's start with Ms. Enguehard or Mr. Doucet.