Finance committee  There is quite a unique situation in New Brunswick because it is a bilingual province. In addition, the population base is large enough that people have access to jobs and can work in different fields in French. The same is true of some small communities in Nova Scotia, PEI and s

Finance committee  Yes, for one program. The Young Canada Works Program. We do not receive funding for programs that provide jobs to young people once they have finished their studies. Community organizations can no longer receive funding for this because they can no longer be employers under the

Finance committee  Young people in minority communities are in a fairly unique situation in terms of employment. I mentioned it during my presentation. We talked a lot about linguistic duality. Young people want to settle down and find work, but in most cases, the language of work is almost exclusi

Finance committee  In some cases, we have to ensure that not-for-profit organizations in minority communities have access to programs that are funded by the government so that they can participate actively in job searches. This would enable them to develop fully.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. There are consequences on student mobility. Because young people have few opportunities to continue their post-secondary education in French in most of these communities, they move towards large urban centres. We are looking for ways to have these you

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. First of all, allow me to say that as an organization representing French-speaking young people in the country since 1974, our federation believes in working with and for young people. The Fédération de la jeunes

Official Languages committee  As regards the youth network, there is one point regarding the Roadmap, and that is the need to work with youth organizations when there are youth initiatives. This means that the organizations that work with youth have been extremely taxed by the requests for partnerships to wor

Official Languages committee  With regard to education, in a consultation that our organization conducted a few years ago in partnership with the Conférence ministérielle sur la francophonie canadienne, we asked young people what concerned them and what were priorities for them. Postsecondary education is one

Official Languages committee  I'm going to take the liberty of responding. It's not easy. You have to ask a lot of questions to get a clear understanding. The Roadmap as such, at least the way we understand it, involves 15 departments that are taking part in it and that have programs that are operating norma

Official Languages committee  In fact, the Department of Canadian Heritage contributes financially to the games. Other provincial agencies make significant contributions through the delegations. To go back briefly to the accountability question, the youth organizations are extremely responsible and handle the

Official Languages committee  In fact, our organization took action when the Action Plan for Official Languages was being developed and during planning for the Roadmap. However, those are actions that our federation took. There was no consultation as such.

Official Languages committee  That's correct.

Official Languages committee  Culture is definitely important for youth. However, our organization doesn't work just in this area. It can be said that the Roadmap definitely touches on all important aspects and that culture is always included in youth projects. With regard to culture in general and cultural o

Official Languages committee  I'd like to add one point. Some initiatives presented under the Roadmap are related to translation. They have been very well done. Public Works and Government Services Canada has played a role in managing a project that would grant translation internships to young translation stu

Official Languages committee  In response to your question, I would say that an amount of $12.5 million was indeed allocated to the Youth Initiatives Fund under the Roadmap. However, allow me to make one comment. The youth theme appears in various places in the Roadmap. There is the Youth Initiatives Fund und