Perhaps I can tell you about that because the Consortium national de formation en santé has been working closely with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research since 2003. In 2004, we established an official languages advisory committee with our anglophone partners in Quebec. At the advisory committee's last meeting, we learned that funding for the Official Language Minority Communities Initiative was to be terminated at the end of March.
As I mentioned in my presentation, we understand from this situation that it will be increasingly difficult for francophones to make funding requests. Furthermore, it won't be as easy to fund the entire research issue, which directly concerns the health of francophone minority communities, if there is no more dedicated funding for research on French-language health services.
A meeting has been scheduled between the Consortium national de formation en santé and the president of the CIHR to look at how we'll continue to work together.