On page 3 of your presentation you mentioned that in 2010, it will be five years since Parliament strengthened part VII of the Official Languages Act. As we know, part VII is about the advancement of French and English. I would like to congratulate the other parties that raised this issue, because the organizations in our communities are not receiving any money. Cases such as this are not violations of part VII. We claim to be promoting minority language, but we do not provide the tools required to do so.
The government has made a commitment to help the community and to provide funding, but when organizations have to use credit and credit cards and lay people off in order to survive, how can they possibly do any promotional work in their community? Mr. Chong spoke about education and people, but this was part of what he was saying.