Official Languages committee  We don't have very many. Depending on the projects we have had, we sometimes hire part-time employees to deal with communications and that sort of thing. What allows us to operate is the fact that we work in cooperation with the Anglophone women's group. All the awareness campaigns against violence are done jointly, and the campaigns are bilingual.

Official Languages committee  In fact, as we were saying, there are very few of us. I am the only person who works full time. If I have to create and develop a new project every year, I don't have time to actually carry out the project I worked on. It really has to do with time limitations. In addition, even if we have a pilot project that works, is successful and yield results, we are told we have to do something new.

Official Languages committee  That often happens, as a matter of fact. Finding a source of funding to renew something that's already in place occurs is a rare occurrence. I know that Status of Women Canada has just announced funding—for what are called blueprint projects—where you are able to do that, but this is the first time I've seen it.

Official Languages committee  I found out about it last week.

Official Languages committee  I read in an e-mail that it was through Status of Women Canada. It's a new type of funding for what are called blueprint projects—I haven't seen the name in French.

Official Languages committee  No, absolutely not. In the last three months, four important reports have been issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, one on social inclusion, one on housing in the Yukon and another one on acutely intoxicated persons and the homeless, to name only those. Those are the three main reports.

Official Languages committee  Not really. I think the government does things because we push them to do those things; otherwise, they would not.

Official Languages committee  I presume it is both. When it comes to translation and services in French, budgets are not unlimited. Nobody has one. As for the reports, they have to select the ones they will have translated. With grant applications, they ask if there is one part that is more important than the other.

Official Languages committee  Yes, it is three to four times higher.

Official Languages committee  They were departmental documents in English. They told us they had no money to have them translated into French and asked us whether we did. Obviously we do not. It was a document from the Yukon government on the prevention of sexual assault, and since they had no funds to translate it into French, they asked if we would do it.

Official Languages committee  I don't know. I'm surprised that staff from Community Health Partnership are not going to meet with you. Unfortunately, Ms. Sandra St-Laurent is out of town right now, but I do think you should secure some documentation or information from them about health care services. They are the ones pressuring the Yukon government to provide services.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for accepting our request to appear. Les EssentiElles is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1995. I would like to tell you a little story. It was the then President of the AFY, whom you met this morning, who, seeing that the needs of Francophone women were not well enough defined or dealt with by the organization, asked one of her friends to present a motion at the general meeting stating that separation was necessary and that Les EssentiElles should become an independent group.