I am going to ask Pablo to talk about the meetings held last week, but I would first like to clarify a couple of things.
When I was appointed Minister of Official Languages in June of 2008, the first thing I did was to embark on a cross-country tour of Canada to speak to the representatives of organizations on the ground. For example, a small Francophone organization in Nanaimo, British Columbia, has only two people. The Francophone community in Prince Edward Island that I visited when I was passing through Charlottetown includes grassroots organizations whose budgets are not in the millions of dollars, unlike other organizations. They have real needs and real concerns with respect to the future use of the official languages in Canada. I talk to people in these organizations very often.
I believe that less than 2% of the voters in my riding are Francophone. Existing organizations are therefore very small and there are very few of them. I am always in contact with their representatives. People at the FCFA and the QCGN can always get in touch with me. I have met with them in the past at meetings, and I certainly expect to speak to them again. In addition, official discussions took place here, in the National Capital, last week.
Pablo, could you tell us how those meetings went?