Official Languages committee  Inuktitut.

Official Languages committee  The Yukon Languages Act recognizes French, English and the aboriginal languages. Yukon has no Inuit population, but it does have an aboriginal population made up of a number of nations that speak various languages.

Official Languages committee  I don't want to speak for them. The act gives them all the same status.

Official Languages committee  You are all welcome in our community any time. Don't be shy. It's not cold in the summer; it's actually very nice.

Official Languages committee  There are different aspects to your question and I will start with the last, that is how the French Embassy assists us. In the Yukon, there is a group of people of French origin who work jointly with us and who help us. For example, the embassy provides us with funding for Ciné-

Official Languages committee  No. I don't want to mislead you. I said that the Canada-community agreements represented about 25% of my budget. For immigration, it's the federal government, in accordance with agreements. There's an agreement with the federal government for economic development. Therefore, ther

Official Languages committee  I have a short answer: no, because you have to have a budget review mechanism. A budget is a forecast. We revise our budgets. What's difficult is that we're being asked to draw up a budget now and we're being told that the amount won't increase. That's not realistic. It's not dif

Official Languages committee  You're right, Mr. Godin: the community needs support. The University of Moncton has a research centre on linguistic minorities. Mr. Rodrigue Landry, a researcher and professor, said it bluntly: if there's no balance struck between community infrastructure and health care centres,

Official Languages committee  To flourish, you need a balance, you need a strong and viable community structure. The day you stop moving forward, you start to go backward. My approach is positive, so that we can get more and so that tomorrow morning, when we knock on your door to obtain funding to expand our

Official Languages committee  That means that people have worked hard.

Official Languages committee  Yes, but they worked hard even before the existence of the Standing Committee on Official Languages—

Official Languages committee  I wrote a little brief in the 1960s. When we prepared our first brief, before the Official Languages Act even existed, we stated that we needed strong communities.

Official Languages committee  In the 1960s in Canada there was no Official Languages Act nor any recognition of minority communities. An inquiry asked what was needed to ensure the vitality of these communities. When comes time for us to be accountable, I'm asked to justify our existence for a period of one y

Official Languages committee  We're lucky.

Official Languages committee  Exactly. That is why we created a program called Place aux jeunes—Yukon. We want to stay in touch with them, to bring them back for their internships, and to encourage them to settle in the Yukon and have families there.