Absolutely. Temiskaming Shores and Area Chamber of Commerce received funding from FedNor for a rebranding effort when the City of Temiskaming Shores was created. We received funding to put towards website design and rebranding initiatives.
On a go-forward basis, having somebody in the community who could provide translation services to translate documents from English into French or French into English for businesses is something that absolutely would help. Whether that funding came from FedNor or whether there were other funding opportunities, I think it would help us be more competitive.
We use some of the FedNor funding, which we get on an annual basis for summer students, to hire part-time help for tourism initiatives. We try to make sure that those students are bilingual. There is also an ACFO organization locally that receives funding federally. They promote francophone services in our community.
So I think FedNor is helping. Additional help is always welcome and is certainly something that would benefit our community.
One of our top recommendations is translation services to try to ensure that businesses can get help, whether it's through the creation of an app for a front counter service or through a capability to have somebody speak French into a smartphone and have it translated into English immediately, to reduce the need to hire somebody with the skill set by having technology fill the void, or whether it's by having somebody with the ability to translate written documents and web pages. All of that would be welcome.