In health as in other issues with which the Acadian federation is concerned, we have been promoting active offer for a number of years now. We tell the provincial government to make an active offer of service.
We talked about the literacy cuts. People who were taking advantage of those programs were not young school-aged people. They were people 40 years of age and over who hadn't been able to receive training in French and now wanted to play an active role in their community.
These people want to be alive and, as the Sagouine says, “to be full-fledged” members of their community.