Good afternoon, Mr. Dalton and Mr. Godin. I did indeed have the pleasure of meeting you last week at the award ceremony.
Unfortunately, I did not attend the latest meeting of the Chambre de commerce francophone de Vancouver because I was at the reception in honour of Mr. Godin. We do work closely with them, though. Their mandate is local, and ours is provincial. Our mandate is to set up meetings and facilitate networking among entrepreneurs. We often refer entrepreneurs seeking counselling services to the chamber of commerce for networking activities. In return, the chamber of commerce refers entrepreneurs to us when they need support for more specific services, such as training.
In fact, as I said in my presentation, we also manage the fund previously called the Fonds de développement économique francophone de l'Ouest, or FDEFO. It's part of the Economic Development Initiative, the EDI, and it enables us to redistribute that money to francophone community organizations for community economic development projects. Over the past two years, the chamber of commerce has benefited from that source of funding, which we manage.