If I may just pick up on that, it's a very good question. “By and for” is an important concept, and we acknowledge it. I'm proud today to be wearing my
“Francophonie économique canadienne” tie
that I was happy to receive from the
Conseil de développement économique de l'Alberta, last week, when I attended the 2016 Gala des Lauriers de la PME in Edmonton. Mr. Boissonnault is very familiar with that event.
Can we talk about linguistic minority community identity? “By and for” is about all of us. This linguistic identity that exists unites us in ways that I think are innovative and important. I want to highlight that in the text I shared with you, and in all the material that you have, you have a reference to our Canadian Plan for Economic Development of Official Language Minority Communities. Our economic interests across the country unite us. When we talk about “by and for”, we're not talking about one linguistic community based on language, whether English or French; we're talking about a group united across the country. It's an important concept, and I think it's what allows us, when we look at “by and for”, to use resources that are available through the current action plan to engage the majority communities in many of the places we're in.
On Mr. Arseneault's question about the circumstances in a place like the Gaspé, we have nine offices in Quebec, one office in New Carlisle. We've spent $150,000 or so over the past four years working on something called the revitalization project.
It covers the entire Gaspé region.
We've engaged over $4 million of economic activity from municipalities, the private sector, and the province to invest in that area. That notion for us comes back to our concept of what community is about, and in many ways it's difficult for us to isolate that, uniquely based on language.