We call on the various departments as often as we can. Obviously, there is the difficulty that arises from the fact that these are always special projects. Special projects do have some advantages, but there is also a disadvantage: not all development activities begin on April 1 and finish by March 31, requiring no further attention.
There is one thing that we would like to see become a thing of the past as far as the interdepartmental aspect is concerned. Sometimes, we are told by the other departments to contact Canadian Heritage for assistance since our content is francophone, and this is not the type of thing that they do. For example, this is more or less the response we were getting at one point with respect to the economic development initiative. We feel that this response runs completely counter to part VII of the Official Languages Act and every government directive that has been issued since the early 1980s, unless I am mistaken.
It is important that the francophone press and all of our organizations not be tied strictly to an official languages program and that we be integrated into other support programs.