Thank you very much, Mr. Beaulieu.
As an organization, we are vigorous advocates for French.
If you want a service offered in French, give it to a francophone organization, because it will be sure to protect French while meeting the needs of the anglophone majority community.
If you give the service to an anglophone organization, French just becomes something pushed off to the side.
As a francophone organization, we have employability and business start-up skills. We made a place for ourselves on the market, which makes us a competent organization to serve the francophone community.
Given the shortfalls observed within the community, members of the anglophone community started to communicate with us to say they would also like to benefit from our services.
Nonetheless, at the base, we remain a francophone organization that cares deeply about defending francophones. We are mandated to do so, but we also support anglophone organizations and employers.
How do we do that? For example, we recommend francophone workers to anglophone employers, telling them that the workers are French-speaking and we suggest hiring them.
We publish job offers and support employers so that they recruit French-speaking workers. It helps increase the pool of francophones in our community.