It affects them quite negatively. Stakeholders must be clearly identified and allowed to speak out on their linguistic truths and how the financing and measures for the protection of official languages, especially French, affect them. They need to be listened to. They need to be taken into consideration, because ineffective consultation—allowing someone to speak but not listening to what the person has to say, not hearing the concerns they're trying to voice—is simply, in the best case, a waste of time.
