Official Languages committee  One of the objectives of the economic development initiative is to take economic advantage of our linguistic reality. One of the components of the initiative is definitely to treat linguistic duality as an economic advantage for projects. At FedNor, we have a lot of examples of i

Official Languages committee  FedNor is actually responsible for carrying out the project in northern Ontario. The department's role is to coordinate what all the agencies are doing in that project, including FedNor and the other regional agencies. I also talked about our research program, our evaluation pro

Official Languages committee  In my address, I referred to a change in the way we operate when we implement programs in the communities. I said that all the regional agencies—ACOA in Nova Scotia—are responsible for implementing initiatives in the field so that we can work closely with the communities. That ma

Official Languages committee  I don't think I referred to $10.9 million.

Official Languages committee  The $30.5 million figure is the economic development initiative for all the regional agencies and Industry Canada. It's the entire budget.

Official Languages committee  It's partly for that. The economic development part of the roadmap is $30.5 million.

Official Languages committee  All the funding is available for official languages.

Official Languages committee  Can we reconcile the document he referred to with our figures? Definitely.

Official Languages committee  It's up to the commissioner to decide when he will publish it.

Official Languages committee  Yes. That's correct.

Official Languages committee  It was conducted last year.

Official Languages committee  Yes, certainly.

Official Languages committee  We have employees who are specifically assigned to official languages. That is the budget that my colleague is referring to. You want to know what the impact is, what influence that has on people. You want to know what our official language obligations are. You want to know wheth

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss Industry Canada's role in the Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality. I am here with my colleagues Lisa Setlakwe, who is Director General of the Regional Policy and Coordination Branch, and Aime Dimat