The agreement has enabled us to revive a certain dynamism across the country, break isolation and work in partnership with all the economic and social organizations and their spokespeople.
We really do have something solid to meet future needs. ESDC seems to have to pull out all the stops and work very hard. Unfortunately, despite the good relationship we've had over the last few years, the fact remains that we had no sign of the agreement being renewed at the end of the year.
So, what's somewhat frightening for the organization is falling back into dormancy, an experience it's already had, and losing that dynamism.
ESDC transfers large sums to the provinces, but there are no resources for us. We do not even benefit from the usual consultations with RESDAC's spokesperson organizations.
As a result, we're falling back into a kind of dormancy and survival mode, and we're not really responding to current needs. The majority of organizations we know are able to do this, but exclusively in English. All research is done in English.
I could name you several sites that have been funded by EDSC but do research exclusively in English. We're going to make this research available in French, but it doesn't meet the specific needs of official language minority communities.