It will not be difficult because ACOA is already very sensitive to the fact that amongst the communities it serves in the Atlantic, several are francophone communities living in a minority situation. I myself am from one of those communities. In good times and in bad, ACOA invests about $13 million in French-language communities living in a minority situation in the Atlantic region. Furthermore, with the adoption of Heritage Canada's Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality, we benefit from increasing amounts every year to top up our contributions to minority situation communities. In that way we can ensure their economic development, by helping entrepreneurs in all areas, whether that be in the arts, culture or economic development.
On May 8th, 2012. See this statement in context.