Mr. Chairman, in June 2008 the committee adopted the report entitled "The Collaboration Accords between Canadian Heritage and the Community Organization—an evolving partnership". This report already contained some recommendations covering the sensitive aspects of the situation, namely that Canadian Heritage must provide the funding when announced, and that if there were any delays in sending the funding, it would be up to the department to pay the interest. Here I refer to recommendation numbers 6 and 7. With respect to recommendation number 4, it was designed to reduce the accountability measures so as not to impede the ability of organizations to carry out their mandate. However, we can see that this is not yet the case, which is extremely disappointing.
If the process were made easier, if it were not the minister who had to sign off on all of the agreements for minority francophone and anglophone organizations, would that help resolve the problem?