Your government is disregarding its obligations under part VII of the Official Languages Act. In short, the ministers are not consulting the communities when the time comes to implement programs or to establish criteria for the implementation of programs. Because of this lack of consultation, minority official language communities are not taken into account, and the programs that are available are not adapted to the communities. There are several examples of stakeholders who have not had access to federal funding because the program criteria were not adapted to the communities.
What are you doing, concretely, to raise the awareness of other federal institutions that have obligations under part VII of the Official Languages Act, regarding the importance of consulting the communities so as to ensure that the programs are adapted to their specific characteristics? Can you give us some concrete examples of that? Are you ready to commit here, in committee, to sending a letter to each one of your colleagues in every department to remind them are their obligations regarding consultations?