Mr. Speaker, my department has made a modest but important number of investments, resulting in a number of projects, including the hiring of economic development officers who work in French with francophone communities and with the majority. And there are a number of studies showing what we need to do to boost economic development in French.
Partnerships have been formed not only between communities, but with entrepreneurs, men and women with businesses throughout western Canada.
What is now going on is good for western francophones, good for the West and good for Canada.