In Témiscamingue, there's the Foire gourmande, a tourist and gastronomical project that was developed on both sides of the border by the Anglophones and Francophones of Temiskaming in Ontario and the Francophones of Témiscamingue on the Quebec side. It's a success. These people won the gold medal for the tourism project of the year in Quebec. I think they were finalists at the national level. A total of 50,000 persons visited the Foire Gourmande this summer. The event was spread over five days.
We have a problem in Canada: we have a free trade agreement with the United States, but we're not even trying to reach one that really works among the provinces. We're letting golden economic opportunities go by. There are approximately 200,000 Francophones in northern Ontario. We represent value-added, an asset for tourism and creativity. We should be able to work more in a synergistic way with northern Quebec. We share the same reality, and we operate in the same economic sectors. And yet the project is still undeveloped. Everything remains to be done. As far as we're concerned, we view ourselves in a way as orchestra conductors on these projects.