Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for your testimony.
I have a question related to the free trade agreement with Europe. During your discussion with the communities, are you being asked about the free trade agreement in Europe? Are Canada's minority linguistic communities preparing themselves for the new economic opportunities that will be created by this agreement?
Why I'm saying this is because in the CanNor presentation I have seen you are saying that with CanNor's funding contributions, territorial francophone associations, together with their partners, are developing services and tools to support local employment, attracting investment from Quebec and France—but there are many other countries in Europe that speak French, and I just mention right away Switzerland, Belgium, and Monaco—as well as fostering the economic integration of newcomers, entrepreneurship, and community economic development.
So are you limiting yourself only to France? Or are you thinking about the greater input on 500 million people who can do business, and where the community can access that?
Second, when you were speaking about the exports, there were some maple syrup exports in New Brunswick. There were two companies that were exporting maple syrup. So how would this free trade agreement help the communities to export more?