There is horizontal coordination, but each department is also responsible for each component. What I mean by that, is that several departments have excellent ideas, wonderful things they wish to accomplish, and they do so in an isolated manner, each on their own. Heritage Canada's role is ensuring the alignment of such things with respect to part VII of the Official Languages Act, which concerns minority-language communities. It is not always easy, because they have limited staff to work on that, never mind the fact that federal institutions already have a tendency to work in isolation. It is sometimes difficult for communities who see so many things being done by various departments, to realize there is no management system or horizontal coordination to ensure such efforts are maximized.
On November 27th, 2013. See this statement in context.