First, we're very much aware at Public Safety Canada of the importance, and even the obligation, first to get to know better, and second to consult the official language minority communities.
To date, for example, at the National Crime Prevention Centre, we held an initial forum in 2009 in the context of a network that we formed with Justice Canada. It is called the Justice and Security Network, and its objective is to share best practices for improving knowledge of the francophone communities' needs. The deputy minister referred to the forum in his introduction. It is a forum that aimed to bring together approximately 25 organizations that work in Canada with young francophones in minority communities to try to better understand the nature of the needs that may currently arise there.
Following that first forum, we intend to conduct a slightly more in-depth field survey, with our partners, in particular with Justice Canada, in early 2011, in an attempt to more clearly ascertain the nature of the needs of young francophones in minority communities with regard, quite obviously, to public safety. For example, what are the risk factors that may arise in these populations to which we could respond more effectively.
So this is one of the tools with which we are trying to get to know better and consult the francophone communities, in particular. In addition, more broadly, we are also trying through our regional offices, our directors general at the National Crime Prevention Centre, to maintain constant relations with francophone organizations outside Quebec and anglophone organizations in Quebec in order to have working relations that enable them to get to know our programs better, particularly our funding programs, and eventually to be able to apply for funding as necessary.