We know that the federal government will allocate funds for health promotion. The funding will be sent to a group that will distribute it or to a public health agency. The problem is that the funding does not come with any obligation to provide services in both official languages.
When major public health programs are established, we have to wait for three years for the services to be translated into French. Then it is too late to serve francophones. Moreover, translating these services into French is not enough to meet the needs of the various francophone communities, which are dealing with problems that the anglophone communities are not facing. A small francophone school in a village or a small community may not be large enough to obtain the services.
I recommend that the federal government tie its funding to the obligation to serve francophones in French.