Minister, your colleague, Ms. Verner, promised there would be no cuts to the Roadmap on Official Languages. But recently, budget cuts of $1.7 billion were announced for some federal departments and agencies, and there may well be other such announcements in the coming weeks and months. In spite of that, are you giving us the same guarantee as your colleague—in other words, that the Roadmap will not be cut on the backs of official language minority communities, even if budget cuts are announced at departments and agencies for which you are responsible?
On May 25th, 2010. See this statement in context.