Mayor Sullivan said that five languages were spoken at Vancouver city hall, but French wasn't one of them. How do we go about promoting the offer of services in French in Vancouver? We have to create places and a critical mass; federal services have to be grouped together in one place so that Francophones are no longer invisible and there are sufficient numbers of them to generate other services. The Maison de la francophonie would like to be at the heart of that development.
On December 4th, 2006. See this statement in context.