Speaking of active offer, Mr. Lavoie referred to the Agriculture Canada Vision program. The program involved giving a small grant of $25,000 to rural communities to hire a professional consultant who would help them define their assets, their needs, what the future held, what threats they faced, and to basically get organized. The program was not used by francophone communities. When we realized this, we took advantage of meetings with representatives from the federal government to tell them that we could perhaps promote the program for them. We certainly promote it a lot: we raised $1.5 million in grants, which represented 60 Vision programs in all. Communities had no problems with this, and it yielded fantastic benefits for Manitoba. So now, communities have a real structure.
As for follow-up, Industry Canada manages 153 programs targeting small- and medium-sized businesses. Do both anglophones and francophones take advantage of all these programs? Surely not. Our officials would like to work with the department to target relevant programs to francophone communities. That's basically the work we do. So, in our case, we are not so concerned with the court challenges, as is Mr. Godin, although they do have their place. Rather, our interest lies with the value added of official languages, of the francophonie throughout Canada, from an economic point of view. And we do a fairly good job of it.