No, it's because of the program structure. There are services in French, yes, but it is the funding programs that pose a problem. The Agency has a vast array of programs, and yet there isn't one that funds permanent programs. It provides project funding. It doesn't have the right to fund programs or permanent or recurring activities and projects year after year. Nor can it provide core funding; so the government has to do what is needed to allow that to happen and approve the creation of a core funding program.
At our end, we engage in advocacy as well as doing a lot of lobbying, and we are slowly becoming a little more militant.