In general, the community is being held hostage because, from the territory's standpoint, you've seen the answers we're given. We say it's the federal government that doesn't want to give us any money, and the federal government says that it's the territory's act. So we've created a structure in which it's ultimately the individuals, the people of Yukon's francophone community, who are being held hostage. This act has been in existence since 1988, and it has not yet been implemented. An evaluation hasn't even been done to determine where things stand. The act states: "towards implementation of the equality of status", whereas we should have a timetable and be able to say that we have reached a certain point, but we don't even have an evaluation.
We believe the Parliament of Canada has a role to play. This falls within its jurisdiction. This act was passed and the two territorial acts were passed for one very simple reason: to provide services to the francophone community of the territories. Consequently, the Parliament of Canada is ultimately responsible for seeing to that. It signs an agreement that follows directly from the Official Languages Act, in the very preamble to Yukon's Languages Act. It has a role to play. It will have to ask the question. Never has anyone in the federal government asked whether Parliament is ultimately responsible for that act, which is a quasi-constitutional enactment. Parliament should be able to conduct its evaluation.