Mr. Solberg, thank you for your presentation.
On the public record, I want to thank you also for your and the department's hard work. We've interacted a lot.
My riding, Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, is part of the amalgamated greater city of Hamilton. I'm not certain why, maybe because we have two universities and one of the largest colleges in the country, but we get a large population of immigrants and refugees. So I want to thank you for your work.
We also have an organization, whose executive director will be happy that I'm sitting in on this meeting today, called CESO, which is a settlement organization in Hamilton. It is quite a sophisticated organization, with a large staff and a large volunteer component as well. They're very frugal, do very good work. I had a meeting with them almost directly after the election and saw the great operation they have, everything from helping immigrants do résumés, to helping find other services so that they cannot only settle in the community but can be contributing citizens in the community as well.
They've had a number of concerns. One of them was the fact that their funding was frozen. Now we've made some promises, but there's some concern as to whether that reserve will continue to be there, the history of which I don't know because I was only elected on January 23. Therefore, I have something of a multi-faceted question for you.
Number one, why was that funding frozen and when? As to the resources that are flowing now, can I give them some assurance that it's going to continue? I think that funding has been alluded to already, but for the record, will that $307 million that you mentioned also get into the francophone communities?