Regarding the delivery of the service, we think there should be a committee that consists of the various communities with young people who all understand both official languages. That committee would receive demands for all the applications, all the grants, from all the different communities across the country, and it should be their responsibility to decide which projects get approved. It should be a central thing.
We recommend, first and foremost, a strong linguistic clause. If a minority francophone community wants to be part of a celebration in a majority anglophone setting, there shouldn't be two distinct celebrations. They should work together, the anglophone community and the francophone community, to do something together. They should definitely not do it apart. If any French community wants to do that, they should automatically be paired with one of the English communities.
For the communities who don't have a francophone voice, there should be something that promotes an understanding of our linguistic and cultural duality. Somehow, the group or project that gets approved by the committee must demonstrate that they have the resources and a creative way to include the understanding of both dualities. We hope that we will be there to play that role.