Official Languages committee  Yes. The federation gets funding from Heritage Canada for its annual projects. It applied specifically to hire and pay someone to be at the games and provide liaison with VANOC at the Olympics. This application was approved. This is the amount of $160,000 which you mentioned. These people understand that this amount came from—

Official Languages committee  Yes, that it came from the budget envelope they had already received for their projects generally. That is what they are referring to. They should discuss this with the people at Canadian Heritage. We cannot apply any pressure in this situation.

Official Languages committee  La Maison de la francophonie is the village you are referring to. We are working very closely with the Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique and other organizations that will also have a part of Granville Island at games time. They are looking into that place to portray certain shows.

Official Languages committee  We have a collaboration with them. So we look at what we can do and where we can work together on certain projects. It's mostly about bringing official languages alive, because there are a lot of projects that involve francophonie nationally. They have formed a coordination committee that includes people from each province to look at the aspects of education, cultural programming, volunteering, and all this.

Official Languages committee  Yes. In the area of education, one of the projects is a virtual torch relay. When the torch relay actually begins in Canada, there will be a virtual relay in schools in the various francophone communities. The schools will be linked for this purpose. There will be festivities and celebrations organized.

Official Languages committee  They will be located at the Place de la francophonie, on Granville island.

Official Languages committee  Yes. In British Columbia, there is only L'Express du Pacifique. When we need to advertise in English newspapers, it is sometimes impossible to do it simultaneously in L'Express du Pacifique because it is published only every two weeks. It is difficult. We cannot wait. When the francophone newspaper is not available, we make sure that the ads appear in both official languages in the anglophone paper.

Official Languages committee  There might well be in Canada, but in British Columbia... That is not something we thought about. That might be something to reassess.

Official Languages committee  After that request for proposal was drafted, we realized that a mistake had been made because, at the outset, we had asked that all proposals be drafted in English. We then found a way for people to submit their proposals in French. We will either have a team of people to assess proposals submitted in French, or have them translated before assessment.

Official Languages committee  Indeed, the contract that will be signed with the selected bidder will be drafted in English.

Official Languages committee  That's correct, because the language of business is English.

Official Languages committee  We will be able to assess proposals, regardless of whether they are drafted in one of the two languages. But the signed contract will be drafted in English.

Official Languages committee  Yes, because we have to understand one another.

Official Languages committee  The contracts are drafted by lawyers, and are mostly done in English.

Official Languages committee  We are going to have to take that into consideration.