I'd like to draw an analogy with the automotive industry. As Henry Ford said, you can have any colour Ford, as long as it's black. The collaboration accord consisted of five parts. Parts I, II and III were unchanging, and Parts IV and V made it possible to add little stickers here and there. That's the first thing.
One of the important aspects of the agreement was working with the other departments. That's what we want to do, because we are still limited to working with Canadian Heritage. That's fine, it's making some effort, and we've had a relationship with it for a number of years. The situation isn't ideal, but it's going well enough because it nevertheless gives us some funding. We're working on the global development of our communities. We must talk about immigration, health and all that, but the discussions, the dialogue or the collaboration with the other departments remains to be developed. There isn't any real involvement by those departments. We would like Canadian Heritage to support us in that respect, but it doesn't know how to position itself. There's a contextual problem.
The Action Plan for Official Languages has expired, and we're going through a major period of uncertainty. Those departments don't know at all what to do with the communities. I'm afraid, and I'm calling on the government to come out with the Action Plan for Official Languages. The government's lack of action is literally killing the communities. I wouldn't like the government to use the coming issuing of the Action Plan for Official Languages as a carrot. We need it now, not in six months or after the next election. Otherwise we'll lose the collaboration already underway under the Action Plan for Official Languages that has expired, and everything will have to start over. That's a bad investment for the communities and for the government.