Evidence of meeting #93 for Official Languages in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was federal.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Dean, la Cité universitaire francophone, University of Regina
I would also say that scholarships and other forms of financial assistance are important. It is already impossible, especially in a minority context, not to provide assistance to our students.
Niki Ashton NDP Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, MB
Mr. Arsenault, you are from northern Canada, as am I. As we know, there is a real housing crisis there.
Conservative
NDP
Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Joël Godin
Please answer very quickly, Mr. Arsenault. Otherwise, I will have to interrupt you.
Executive Director, Collège nordique francophone
Regarding affordability, students often have to leave the north and head to Ottawa, Toronto or Montreal. Those trips and housing are tremendously expensive, and families are separated. So we need to develop the programs we offer in the north to keep our people there.
Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Joël Godin
Thank you, Mr. Arsenault.
Thank you, gentlemen. May I remind you that if you have any information or documents to provide to help us in our study, you may send them to the clerk who will share the information with us.
I would also like to inform all committee members that the press conference that was scheduled for 10:30 has been postponed because our chair has unfortunately been unable to present the report.
In closing, I would note that, at the next meeting, we will be continuing our study of federal funding for minority-language post-secondary institutions.
Do the members of the committee wish to adjourn?