Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank committee members for inviting us here this morning. My name is Jean Léger and I am executive director of the Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité Canada, better known as RDÉE Canada. The chairman of our board, Gilles Lante

Official Languages committee  Of course, Mr. Godin. As I said earlier, 1,200 people responded to the cross-Canada consultation that we held. The answers helped us target key sectors where efforts must be focused in particular. However, there is not necessarily any research specific to official language minor

Official Languages committee  Yes, I could not speak for the QCGN, since it is more on the anglophone side—

Official Languages committee  One of the plans you refer to, the community strategic plan, goes back to 2008 and is therefore somewhat dated now. The integrated plan, which was developed in Gatineau in 2012, put specific emphasis on public policies and included Quebec francophones. It focused to a great exten

Official Languages committee  No, it was the FCFA. We belong to the Leaders' Forum. The FCFA was indeed consulted. I even met with the people from its executive office concerning this process. By the end of April, we will also be specifically consulting the FCFA and its members. A situation arose in which th

Official Languages committee  I will be. Thank you for your question, Mr. Gourde. About a year and a half ago, I attended the Montreal Conference, a major international economic forum that was extremely important for our country. It was attended by the presidents of major banks and representatives of organi

Official Languages committee  I was executive director of the Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse for 10 years and acted as representative of the Acadian and francophone community of that province. I can tell you that the private sector is a factor in the vitality of the francophone community in those

Official Languages committee  We have lost less since the Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities, which finances our network, was extended under the roadmap. So no programs have met with that fate for the moment. However, we are waiting to hear what will happen to certain programs. For exam

Official Languages committee  No, we do not provide any money at all.

Official Languages committee  No that comes directly from the government.

Official Languages committee  Yes. The money comes directly from the government or governments for accountability reasons. It is the government that invests money, not us. We do not transfer any money at all to our member organizations.

Official Languages committee  That is what has to be done. I would like to provide a little more clarification on the Canadian Plan for Economic Development of OLMC, which we are in the process of developing. In fact, the 1,200 respondents from the private sector, business community and the communities will

Official Languages committee  Yes, it belongs to it, but we do not provide funding to that organization.

Official Languages committee  That is correct. We have to ask our clients the questions to determine what they need. We have to be an intermediary. We are going to gather a great deal of information, but we need boil it down to a few strategic actions. We need a maximum of three or four strategic actions.

Official Languages committee  I think we could definitely involve researchers such as the people from the Conference Board of Canada. They have already prepared a study demonstrating the value added of linguistic duality in Canada. I think we should try to rely on that kind of study to prove, as Mr. Buck said