Thank you for the question, Mr. Gravelle.
All we know is that, at some stage, Contact interculturel francophone de Sudbury lost its contract with CIC. The Conseil économique et social d’Ottawa-Carleton, which looks after the network in eastern Ontario, was given the mandate for one year. It deals with building, or continuing to build, the network in the south. At that point, the staff changed. I know that CIC has issued a call for tenders in recent months in order to find a new group that can run the network in northwestern and northeastern Ontario on a little more permanent basis.
The AFO has made its views known about CIC’s conditions. We hope that a francophone group from northern Ontario will be the next to coordinate the network. We are firm believers in the idea of “by and for”. In other words, the work has to be done “by and for” people in the north and it must be a francophone organization that provides the services.