We know that small French-speaking communities rarely have the organizational capacity to file very complex funding applications. Other financial organizations have the same problem, be they at provincial, municipal, or federal level.
Given that some of our communities are small and have less developed organizational capacities, the government should be flexible enough, despite everything, to allow these communities to receive funding for specific projects that could have an impact on our clientele, usually people with low literacy rates, whether it is at the level of job skills or family literacy, or for seniors who need to develop certain skills. We should therefore tailor the eligibility criteria to the communities’ real capacities. This is why we find the idea of a consortium interesting. The organizations that form it could help communities that do not have the same capacity to submit applications for projects that could have a real impact on their communities.