Thank you for the question.
I have two comments about the roadmap.
The interesting thing is that the roadmap includes a component on skills for employment. However, as you pointed out, we have had no information about this for a year. That jeopardizes organizations that have developed expertise on skills and employment. Expertise on skills for employment and the labour market is difficult to develop for minority and majority communities, although we are now discussing minority communities.
The funding set out in the roadmap has still not been distributed, but what is even worse is that no mechanism has been announced so far. After a year, we are starting to think there is a problem. We are talking about the roadmap, but we could also talk about a skills development program for which we submitted a funding application at least a year ago. And we are not alone. About 30 organizations across the country are in the same situation. Those lags jeopardized organizations that represent official language minority communities and the expertise acquired. In addition, the provision of programs has been slowed down.
Skills development, both for minority and majority communities, is done in conjunction with the provinces. Slowdowns for organizations result in slowdowns in terms of relationships and the implementation of programs adapted to and in line with provincial programs. Skills development cannot be done any which way. At least, if that were the case, it would be dangerous. It would jeopardize our organizations.