Official Languages committee  Actually, not quite. Some of our members work specifically with women's groups, but as we mentioned earlier, across Canada we only have four centres. We know that it's the provincial governments that provide services in social areas, but if we don't have the support from the fede

Official Languages committee  I would just like to mention the vicious circle that our 15 member associations find themselves in. There is no core funding, just the operational funding that we hear so much about. This morning, we talked at length about funding project by project. The part-time staff and volu

Official Languages committee  Yes. The VON is the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. As you mentioned, it's a service that's offered at home. The reason we connected with this organization is that we discovered, a little by chance, that there were people from minority communities who were unaware of the re

Official Languages committee  Through the VON, we established contact with the Canadian Caregiver Coalition. When we spoke with the representatives of that coalition, we mentioned the need for francophone employees both in the agencies and among the volunteers who help people with cancer or any other kind of

Official Languages committee  Yes, it happens to everyone.

Official Languages committee  I would just like to add, Mr. Bélanger, that I've had the opportunity to live in one territory and four different provinces. If there hadn't been the CBC for the minority communities, I would never have known what was really going on across Canada. So see how important it is? It

Official Languages committee  As for Status of Women Canada, there were cuts in 2006, as we mentioned earlier. The reason we said that Status of Women Canada was not part of the roadmap was because it was not a sector identified as such as a partner from the start. This posed a problem for women's groups beca