Thank you.
Lastly, I would like to request some information from our researcher.
On a number of occasions, we've heard comments to the effect that the Roadmap had increased the budget by 40%. In one sense, that's probably true, but in another sense, that may be misinforming people. I would like us to prepare a document for everyone on the Action Plan for Official Languages and its funding, but on an annual basis. From memory, I believe that the action plan's funding increased from year to year and that funding amounted to more than $200 million in the last year of the action plan. If, for example, we added to that RDÉE, which was attached to it at that point, and others, the funding largely exceeded $200 million. I believe it was $230 million, but we would have to check. So if you take $230 million and multiply it by five, that equals $1.1 billion. So we could argue that there has been no increase, as Mr. Nadeau said.
I would also like to know, based on the documents we have received thus far from Canadian Heritage, how much money has not been spent every year since the Roadmap was put in place. That would let us know what the actual figures are. If it were possible to have that document for all committee members and the public, I believe that would be very useful, Mr. Chair.
Lastly, I would like to tell you about a concern. I don't know how we will manage to get this information, but the president of the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne, the FCFA, made quite a disturbing comment last week. She said that the federation suspects—this isn't an accusation—that existing programs have been eliminated or cut because the Roadmap now covers 15 departments and that some of those departments receiving Roadmap money have withdrawn money from existing programs.
How will we be able to determine legitimately whether that is true?
Thank you, Mr. Chair.