Official Languages committee  I'm not saying you're not fair, but we're completely different from elsewhere. I saw the NWT list. For example, you had CDETNO. CDETNO is RDÉE TNO; RDÉE Yukon is the AFY. We're a hybrid model. We decided to concentrate, to consolidate our energy, to develop a Yukon model somewhat

Official Languages committee  Yes, that's a good point. You mentioned the devolution of services. Responsibility for forest fires fell to the federal government. That was transferred to the Yukon government. This summer, there were two forest fires, as there are virtually every summer in Yukon. The evacuatio

Official Languages committee  Our paper left the presses two days earlier. That advertisement could very well have been published in our paper. In the past, we were told that there was no French-language newspaper and, later on, that we didn't publish it often enough. Sometimes the paper is published that sam

Official Languages committee  The last round of negotiations was the one in 2003.

Official Languages committee  Yes, you've guessed it.

Official Languages committee  You're right to ask yourself the question. During the term of the last agreement—the agreement is usually for a term of four to five years—the 1998-2003 agreement, there were two applications between 1999 and 2001 under the Court Challenges Program. Twelve years earlier we had n

Official Languages committee  It's published every other week, except in July, when the centre is closed and we give our employees leave.

Official Languages committee  Yes, volunteers handle virtually all our activities. Our president has long been a volunteer.

Official Languages committee  Incidentally, our president is a volunteer. She's not paid; she receives no salary. She has a young child at home and is currently pregnant. Our volunteers are the real source of our strength. We have more than 50 volunteers. We have a few tens of employees. We have a lot more vo

Official Languages committee  No, I said that, when a change occurs, you have to be able to understand it. I wouldn't say it's more complicated. It's different. You have to adjust to certain things that you don't understand as well. However, we're not afraid. We're not afraid of accountability. At AFY, we ha

Official Languages committee  You understood perfectly. We had previously established a tripartite mechanism for bilateral agreements. That included the territorial government, the federal government and the community. We took part in it. It's understood that this is an agreement among governments, but we to

Official Languages committee  The very short answer is that it's a government-to-government agreement and there's no legal obligation.

Official Languages committee  Since the last round of negotiations. From 2003 to 2008, we took part in that series of meetings. However, in the last round, the renewal of the Roadmap, we weren't invited.

Official Languages committee  Yes. We asked to take part. The judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada in DesRochers v. Canada clearly states that federal government services must be developed based on the needs of the communities, as the communities have described them. It was understood that the federal gov

Official Languages committee  I'll give you a two-part answer. You have to give the runner a chance. You have to be honest. And we made a lot of presentations in 2008. The delays had improved. We have to be honest; that improved. Now there's a process. However, the process now involves a lot more red tape.