Official Languages committee  Industry Canada has those exact figures. The figures that I'm aware of from our community come from a crop survey done in 2010. We have a very high level of high-speed Internet access in our community. It's in excess of 93% or 94%—I'm working from memory here—so, yes....

Official Languages committee  You live on the lower north shore. There's little culture in your community of higher education. To go to CEGEP or to post-secondary straight out of high school, you're going to be going to Quebec City. That's where you're going to learn your skills, but you're going to be away from your community.

Official Languages committee  I don't think there are too many people who come to Ottawa asking for less money. There is a notion that government is the banker. Social financing is an idea that government is a facilitating partner with civil society in achieving a social return on investments. Social financing is the specialty of ESDC.

Official Languages committee  Not for our community. In general that may be true, but it does not—

Official Languages committee  It would be an excellent question to ask YES if they get invited to this committee. They can tell you about their first-hand experiences trying to access funds from the Government of Quebec, because they were refused funding from the Government of Quebec because they are an English organization.

Official Languages committee  The statistics I quoted are from the 2011 national household survey.

Official Languages committee  I don't know.

Official Languages committee  It's a superb question, and it's one we ask. The people most likely to have the answer right now would be either YES or CEDEC, which we've mentioned. Having said that, we just finished a very good consultation with Employment and Social Development Canada, or ESDC, in January. There is a sense in ESDC right now that they are asking exactly the same questions that you just outlined.

Official Languages committee  The Canada job grant is an excellent example of where you encourage young Canadians, young English-speaking Canadians in Quebec, who can get the services in English that they need to get the technical training. We've explained the sorts of occupations that anglophones work in. They tend not to be represented in the trades.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Madam Bateman. I appreciate that. I wanted to mention, does the government do enough? Under the current President of the Treasury Board the government has implemented linguistic clauses in bilateral agreements, which have been of enormous assistance to us in our dealings with the Government of Quebec.

Official Languages committee  The first priority in our community development plan 2012-2017 is access to services in English. You have to understand that we have to preface our comments by saying that we're in a unique space as English-speaking Quebeckers. The whole mechanism around support to linguistic minority communities in Canada and the Official Languages Act is premised on the idea of a partnership with the provinces in a system that has concurrent jurisdiction.

Official Languages committee  That's correct. Anglophone Quebeckers, English-speaking Quebeckers, have a lower median income, to use my words carefully here. There's always controversy around income because of median and mean incomes, but median income, which is the accepted term, is lower among anglophones.

Official Languages committee  We can break those numbers out. The 5% I was talking about was province-wide. In general, province-wide, English-speaking Quebeckers are more likely to be unemployed than francophones. We can break them down by region, certainly. We can help the analyst do that; we have that data.

Official Languages committee  I think, in terms of the question, there's just not enough time to answer that question; it's very complicated. Let's look at where anglophones work. Anglophones in Quebec are overweighted in management occupations; business, finance, and administration; natural and applied sciences and related occupations; arts and culture; and sales and service.

Official Languages committee  Our community's position would be that the funding that's delivered directly from the federal government to communities is more effective in terms of access to services in English. English-speaking community groups in Quebec find it challenging to access funds that are transferred from the federal government through the provincial government.