Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here with us, Mr. Caza, and for your remarks. I had quite a few questions I wanted to ask you, but instead I will move a motion.
If you allow it, Mr. Chair, I would like us to study the motion now.
I move:
That the Committee invite the Deputy Minister for Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie and the Deputy Minister for Training, Colleges and Universities of Ontario to appear before the Committee to provide an update on the situation of the Université de l'Ontario français.
I would like us to discuss this motion and adopt it unanimously so that we can meet these witnesses as soon as possible before tabling our final report.
When I was the mayor of La Pocatière, the RCM wanted to open recycling depots, but told us that they didn't have the money for that. However, the town of La Pocatière did have the means. We told the people of the RCM that we would provide funding and they could reimburse us later.
Could this type of arrangement be made between the federal and provincial governments? Could the federal government flat out offer Mr. Ford $84 million to fully fund the Université de l'Ontario français with the understanding that the province would repay that money later? The only thing the province would have to do is pay back the federal government once it had the money.
Would that be feasible?