Thank you for those three questions.
I would also like to thank you for what you said about the Assemblée de la francophonie's commitment. We have a fantastic team which works with Mr. Hominuk and myself. We have finally been able to reap the rewards of what we have sown over the past few years, which is to say that we have coordinating committees set up everywhere in the province which get in touch with the whole community. What's more, if we were not here, we would be travelling to see the members of our coordinating committees.
Our community organizations all use the same document, which is the strategic community plan for French-speaking Ontario. This makes it easier for us, after Black Thursday, to communicate with our member organizations, of which we have about 160, both institutional and community-based, and to move forward quickly to mobilize people, which allowed us to organize protests on December 1st.
To answer your first question, we have not had any other direct contact with Ms. Mulroney since last Thursday, when we met her and Mr. Ford. However, our political analyst is in constant communication with Ms. Mulroney's team to continue our exchanges. We have always said that we are open to dialogue and this openness is also evident on Ms. Mulroney's side. We want to continue to talk about this file.
Today, we sent a letter which brings a clear solution that would allow the establishment of the Université de l'Ontario français. It is a win-win solution for the federal government and Ontario. We hope to hear back about our proposal soon.
As to the next steps, I mentioned that this afternoon, we will be holding a provincial meeting with all the organizations that are members of the Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario, the ACFO, which has offices in all Ontario regions. We will be talking about strategy. We will give some information because the Assemblée de la francophonie is an organization that works from the bottom towards the top. We consult at the grass-roots level and then, by going through our coordinating committees that will be meeting Wednesday, Thursday and at the beginning of next week in Ottawa, we will ask our members for feedback. We will also ask them to be vocal in their interactions with their MLA's to see what can be done. These are our short-term objectives.
The comments and feedback that we will get from our members will inform the direction that we will take, not only over the next weeks but also the coming months. I would like the problem to be solved as quickly as possible, but I also know that this could take time. We are ready to act quickly, but if it takes longer than we think, we will continue to exert pressure on the provincial government so that we can get results on these two issues.
As for federal leadership, I believe that the federal government can get the ball rolling, if I may say it that way, and by that token put pressure on the provincial government so that it deals with these issues, changes stance and gets down to brass tacks. This is extremely important for us. The provincial government parties have already supported our efforts. Last week, all parties adopted a motion to that end. We're not favouring one party over another, we want to work to preserve linguistic duality in the country. We have here an excellent opportunity to go forward with an initiative that is of the utmost importance for the francophone community in Ontario.
I would like to thank everyone who has been supporting us in the province and elsewhere in Canada and even abroad. This issue has gone beyond the Office of the French Language Services Commissioner and the Université de l'Ontario français. This has been seen and continues to be seen as an attack on the francophonie and francophone rights. This is why people in other provinces have been so supportive, be they francophones, francophiles or anglophones.