I think it's consultation, but consultation that is not just checking a box. It's consultation that is attuned to the priorities of the English-speaking community.
We are a community without adequate capacity. We do not have federally funded organizations in the way the rest of Canada does, and that's not a criticism of the FCFA and their organization.
Until relatively recently, in the last 20 to 30 years, the English-speaking community was never really seen as a minority community. It's relatively recently that we have seen ourselves as a minority community. It's certainly in the last seven or eight years that we feel we have to say, “Wait a minute; we're a minority community. How will you—the government of the province, and the feds as well—be treating us?” We've woken up to the fact that we are a unique community in a majority Quebec situation. That's a difficult place to be sometimes.
