Official Languages committee  Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, who is the question directed to?

Official Languages committee  All right. Maybe without presumption I can just make a comment on that. Yes, I have seen this article. I'll go so far as to use a word I don't use very often, and that is that I was rather shocked. I am not an expert on conducting scientific sample surveys, but my understanding

Official Languages committee  The establishment of the organization that Ms. Stronach referred to, the Outaouais Health and Social Services Network, has really helped to solve that problem. We played a major role in raising the money needed to establish the organization and now it is independent of us. It is

Official Languages committee  I would certainly regard the maintenance of vitality, which is so much talked of these days, as being a fundamental criterion. It's the question, certainly, of trying to establish a reasonable set of categories, or metrics, or whatever the right word is, for determining what is v

Official Languages committee  I think it's extremely difficult to give an overall picture, sir. For one thing, we talk about the anglophone community, but sometimes it's better to talk in the plural about the anglophone communities. As I think you know very well, there is a world of difference between, shall

Official Languages committee  Yes, I would agree entirely, Mr. Bélanger. I don't think we would ask for the moon. Just to put it in very simple terms, we work with a very dedicated staff of two people. With a very dedicated staff of three people, we would find that the whole of our operation would go much mo

Official Languages committee  What was the question?

Official Languages committee  With respect to funding?

Official Languages committee  Funding is always at the heart of the matter for every organization, isn't it? This is especially true for organizations where resources, both financial and human, are fairly limited. As Ms. Stronach said in her presentation, without core funding, it would be almost impossible to