Absolutely. I will tear up my little note.
This is the only program offered by CanNor at this time in support of Francophone development in the North.
We are sitting here criticizing CanNor, but I think its officials actually show a lot of openness towards the Francophone community. They are making a tremendous effort to work with us. We received funding for projects through other programs. There is a lot of openness there.
I am currently working with a gentleman who is responsible for official languages, so that we can go one step further. In terms of their service offer, they do not provide services in English to Anglophones either. The problem is that they have to structure this new creature, which seems incredible. It took six months to settle the issue of the new president's signing power.
Dealing with the bureaucratic and administrative issues involved in creating this new infrastructure is taking an enormous amount of time. That is what we have been told. It took two years to build their offices in Iqaluit and now they have to hire staff. We have been told that they are still at the initial phase of developing the actual structure of the agency, now that they have dealt with the fundamentals and created the organization.
There has been some discussion about a more formal process under the new mediation program. I have forgotten the name of it. There has been discussion of the idea of submitting a project under that program, in order to support our actions and start to pick the pace. We have been patient up until now. We have cooperated closely with them, but beginning in the new year, part of my mandate will be to apply a little more pressure and move things forward a little more quickly.