Official Languages committee  If we cannot pay the salaries for our human resources who are providing front-line services and setting up projects to meet community needs, we will not be able to achieve our objectives.

Official Languages committee  In the Yukon, economic development organizations probably have better access to funding than we do because of their higher numbers. They are better able to make their requests known to the territorial government, which organizations in the francophone community cannot always do.

Official Languages committee  The funding comes from Employment and Social Development Canada, through the Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities. In terms of the enabling fund, a call for tenders has just been issued for the next three years. The funding comes from the Roadmap and is design

Official Languages committee  If we have to reduce our salary costs and if other economic development agencies do not fund salaries, not having access to the funding we need will make it very difficult for us to pay all the salaries. I hope that is clear.

Official Languages committee  There has been no reduction in funds so far. Actually, we know nothing about it, because the call for tenders has only just been issued. So we will be able to confirm that in the weeks ahead. However, according to the vision that has been presented to us, we are going to have to

Official Languages committee  Yes, I can explain it to you. I do that quite regularly at the moment.

Official Languages committee  We recommend keeping programming funds as they are, with the enabling fund for official language minority communities, or for CanNor to change its policies so that it can fund operating costs, just like other economic development agencies elsewhere in the country, both in the eas

Official Languages committee  I don't know. I think people are listening, but there does not always seem to be a simple answer. The Roadmap was announced on March 27, 2013. Today is February 27, 2014, and we still do not know what is going to happen with some of the programs, including in regard to the amoun

Official Languages committee  The challenges are always different, because francophone entrepreneurs have less access to resources in French. That said, the challenges in the Yukon are less than in other regions. The fact that we are a small community and are together in one place, has advantages, not just d

Official Languages committee  There are a number of reasons. A lot of people, francophone or anglophone, come to the Yukon because they are attracted to the wide open spaces. They may also be attracted by employment possibilities in the Yukon, especially in mining, an industry that is picking up again. As fo

Official Languages committee  I would not like to mislead you, but I think that francophones have their fair share of jobs. Often, people settle in the Yukon because they have found a job there. The people who settle in the Yukon without having found a job are few and far between. Of course, there are young p

Official Languages committee  There are a lot of service sector jobs in the Yukon. So those are not always very well paid. There are some jobs in the mines. People say that there is no economic crisis in the Yukon, but we have to add a note of caution. In a number of areas, like surveying, for example, there

Official Languages committee  Thank you for pointing that out. Finding somewhere to live is a major problem in the Yukon. It is very difficult. Sometimes, young people arrive in town to look for a job, but they cannot find anywhere to live. So they end up leaving again because it is too expensive to live on t

Official Languages committee  In 2009, the Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon brought a court case against the territorial government asking for full school management. The case lasted some time, then the territorial government appealed to the Court of Appeal for the Yukon, which declared a mistrial on

Official Languages committee  The AFY provides a French-speaking daycare. We take children as young as six months. The school takes kids from the age of four, from kindergarten to grade 12. The Association franco-yukonnaise also provides an employment assistance service. If people arrive without jobs, or if a