Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to welcome you to the committee.
I would like to welcome you to our committee on official languages.
I'd like to ring an alarm bell and tell the minority communities of Canada that they aren't quitters. You're using your credit cards to run your communities in Canada. That's wrong, insulting and unacceptable.
You're working so hard to lend vitality to your communities across the country, whether they be anglophone in Quebec or francophone in the rest of the country. They say there's a budget, but that the money will be coming later. There's also an action plan, that will be coming later as well. You've used your personal lines of credit. I'm prepared to tip my hat to you because, if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't have done that. I find this unacceptable.
Did the anglophone community in Quebec have to do the same thing? Did you have to use your own line of credit?