Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would say that the renewal of the roadmap is good news. Its permanent funding until 2018, and beyond, will help us plan over a much longer term and structure our interventions even better. In Quebec, we are reaching 99% of our OLMCs. I think that prosper

Official Languages committee  One of the very successful programs that we have instituted in Quebec is with the youth employment services program, the YES organization, which has had an entrepreneurship program in the greater Montreal area for quite some time. The objectives of the program are to provide coac

Official Languages committee  It's often the case that, yes, more resources are needed. As with any other areas of economic development, obviously there's never enough, but our role is to obviously try to maximize and optimize those resources to the best of our ability.

Official Languages committee  Well, the resources are needed. Everybody needs resources, I would agree with that. The advantage that we do have, as a few of my colleagues have mentioned, is we can also revert back to our regular programming to help out some of these organizations via some other projects als

Official Languages committee  There is in our regular programming, but it's always with the bias, or the lorgnette, if you want, of economic development. It's how these events will generate economic activity, will generate dollars being spent in the regions that we're targeting. It's within that component. M

Official Languages committee  Absolutely.

Official Languages committee  I am not very familiar with that document. However, I can say that the projects that are submitted and developed are approved with the EDI in mind. I can forward you the details of the QCGN report later.

Official Languages committee  I am the one who is not familiar with it. I am not saying that CED is not familiar with it. I would like to be able to give you a much more specific answer soon.

Official Languages committee  As I mentioned previously, we have had a number of meetings with community groups. We have had over 50 meetings with community groups in the past two years including QCGN, including YES, including the dialogue day. That's how we gather the information on a macro scale. As I also

Official Languages committee  I would have to get back to you, but I would assume they're regular forums. With the dialogue days, they're every two years because it's a fairly large event, but with respect to some of the smaller organizations there are lots of forums in which these groups will be represented,

Official Languages committee  I have a very quick answer. Through our regular programming, we support the regional export promotions organizations throughout Quebec. Their main mandate is to help developers of small and medium-sized enterprises to develop their expertise. That's how it's being done in our org

Official Languages committee  Maybe I could just add one practice that we've done that I mentioned in my opening notes, the dialogue day that's been organized in conjunction with Industry Canada. We grouped, obviously, all interested groups within the OLMCs, but also a whole array of federal departments. And

Official Languages committee  Yes. I can't remember the exact name of the organization just now, but I will be able to give you that information later. As I said in my opening remarks, the CEDEC has entrepreneurial support groups in seven regions. Our network should be expanding to include all regions of Que

Official Languages committee  As Mr. Godin said, when you speak English, everything related to exports, particularly to the United States, becomes much easier. For instance, the Gourmet du Village project in Morin-Heights, which was approved under EDI, sought to market products outside Canada, to the United S

Official Languages committee  On the Quebec side, I think the challenges are comparable, but I wouldn’t be able to speak for the other provinces. Perhaps my colleagues could tell us what the situation is in the other provinces.