I would like to tell the committee that there is a great program in Quebec called “Place aux jeunes”. It is a provincial program that encourages young people to go back to their communities. Rachel Garber, the Director General of the Townshippers Association, managed to implement the program in the townships, as a matter of fact. However, the program is a provincial one. Do you understand? For anglophones, there is a problem because of representation, the number of young people, etc.
When programs that fall under provincial jurisdiction are created at the federal level, we have problems because we cannot get our community included in the program that has been transferred to the province. You have to understand clearly that the province of Quebec grants rights to anglophones, but, in Quebec, anglophone rights are individual rights. So when the government transfers any program, Quebec will consider the anglophones,
But it's not a commitment to the vitality of the community, so I would ask you to consider that very, very significantly. We're talking about services. We're talking about services to individuals. We're not talking about the vitality of the community, because it doesn't fit in the provincial framework of Quebec.
The federal government and federal powers can do a lot of different things, but if it is not understood that in Quebec it is not taken in the same spirit around community, you are throwing good money after bad for the English-speaking community.