Official Languages committee  We work within the public system in Canada and all the community health centres that we are currently working with are regional creatures of the provincial governments, whether they are in Edmonton, Saint-Boniface, Cornwall, Sudbury or Prince Edward Island. These are all organizations that exist within the public system.

Official Languages committee  With regard to changes, we began our work three and a half years ago, in 2003. We have already laid the groundwork to improve accessibility. Let us take the example of the community health centre of my colleague, Mr. Fortier, in Manitoba. Such a project starts out as a dream, but $3 million was needed for it to take shape.

Official Languages committee  A lobby group formulates a request and then withdraws, whereas we discuss issues with our partners and ask them to share our problems. We think that everyone should participate by proposing solutions. A lobby group usually demands something of the government but does not sit down with it to identify better solutions, and does not ask for any collaboration.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  First of all, with regard to the issue of anglophones inside Quebec and francophones outside Quebec, I would like to say that it is up to Quebeckers to speak for themselves. I will not get involved in that issue, because I have enough to do dealing with francophones who live outside of Quebec.

Official Languages committee  That is all.

Official Languages committee  Yes, that is all I was implying. So, there are one million francophones outside Quebec. I believe there are close to one million anglophones in Quebec, but there is another organization that deals with their issues. That is not part of our mandate.

Official Languages committee  I would say that, obviously, circumstances are different from city to city. In Moncton, we know that there are two regional health authorities: one for francophones and another for anglophones. We know that one of the problems lies in more specialized services. Some services are offered only by the anglophone health authority, while others are provided only by the francophone authority.

Official Languages committee  That is what I had understood. Where did we start on these issues? We started with basic services, primary health care services, because we cannot deal with everything at the same time and we do not have the means to do so. We therefore decided to begin with primary health care services.

Official Languages committee  In conclusion, Mr. Chair, I would like to add that our 17 networks have all tried to address the following question, which is often put to us: what does it take to improve French-language health care services once and for all? In the past year and a half, we have done the necessary planning to address that question.

Official Languages committee  It is because the French version is not subtitled. In the bilingual version, we did not translate what was said, rather we put subtitles. We could have shown either version. We chose to show this one because we felt that everyone would be able to understand it.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  In this version, there are English subtitles when people speak French.

Official Languages committee  The entire translation is subtitled.

Official Languages committee  We also have one exclusively in French. It is only in French; there are no subtitles.