Official Languages committee  To you or me.

Official Languages committee  To date, no. We are doing an environmental scan; it isn't complete. I'm going to ask the executive director to talk about it, with your permission, because it's a very technical matter. However, we have something underway to quantify needs.

Official Languages committee  Yes. We'll come back and talk to you about it, if you wish.

Official Languages committee  We received an amount for early childhood under the Roadmap which is expiring.

Official Languages committee  I'm finding it hard to understand your question. We have funding from Canadian Heritage which keeps us alive from year to year. We have to file applications in order to get it. The funding that we have under the Roadmap has helped us move forward on francophone early childhood.

Official Languages committee  It's Canadian Heritage.

Official Languages committee  It's currently our only source.

Official Languages committee  Our organizations' dues, which are $200 a year, would not get us very far, since we only have 12 organizations. So it's our only source of funding to speak with francophone parents, to work with francophone parents, to ensure that the vitality of the francophone community continu

Official Languages committee  Thank you.

Official Languages committee  To my knowledge, there is no federal-provincial agreement on early childhood. In any case, it's a provincial jurisdiction. The government has decided to grant families $100 a month per child.

Official Languages committee  I don't know whether any of you have young children, but $100 isn't even enough to buy diapers for one week.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Godin. That's definitely a good question. In the past, money has been invested in child care services. We are aware that, when we offer the option of French-language child care services, parents who are exogamous or francophone will turn to those services. Based

Official Languages committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Ghislaine Pilon, and I am president of the Commission nationale des parents francophones, the CNPF. I am here with our acting executive director, Adèle David. First we want to thank you for granting us this hearing.

Official Languages committee  Everywhere. For example, only one out of every two francophone students attends our schools, and that's because too few schools have been built. Where I live, in Mississauga, a secondary school already has 850 students and is overpopulated. We cannot build another school for an a

Official Languages committee  The vast majority of cases involving parents going to court concerned schools. There was no French education. If we hadn't gone to court, if we hadn't taken the case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, there might not be very many francophones left. If our kids hadn't bee