Official Languages committee  All right. I'll speak quickly. That amount will be used to increase the number of spaces in the French immersion and French second language programs, particularly for early childhood, to follow the educational continuum. It will also be used to increase the number of teachers we can recruit and to encourage them to work in the provinces.

Official Languages committee  It comes out of the pockets of all of us.

Official Languages committee  That's a machinery-of-government question, but I will say that, under the act, the minister responsible for official languages is still the Minister of Canadian Heritage. However, those duties are currently assigned to the Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

Official Languages committee  Minister Petitpas Taylor is responsible for official languages. I want to assure you that there has been no change in the department. The people who worked on official languages before those responsibilities were delegated to Minister Petitpas Taylor are still there and still performing the same duties.

Official Languages committee  I'll be pleased to answer that question. The official languages support programs provide funding for events. Every time we transfer funding through contribution agreements, for example, very clear objectives respecting participation and impact are laid out in each of the agreements put in place with our interveners.

Official Languages committee  I think Ms. Boily has pretty much covered the issue.

Official Languages committee  First of all, we're in the process of negotiating agreements with the provinces and territories to transfer that funding so they can implement the projects we agree on in an action plan. We'll be able to provide you with that information once that work and those negotiations are complete.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  I'm going to turn the floor over to my colleague Sarah Boily, who has worked on those clauses of Bill C‑32.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for your question. I'll begin by saying that that was stated in the 2020 throne speech and repeated in the 2021 throne speech. We're responding in several ways to these trends and to the decline in the demographic weight of francophones, in particular, through the Action Plan for Official Languages, which contains several measures.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be speaking first. First of all, my sincere thanks to you and all the members of the committee for your invitation and especially for the work you are doing. Your studies are important for Canadians in general, but particularly so for federal employees.

Official Languages committee  I will speak first and then I will hand over to Mr. Racine. It is important to say that education is a provincial responsibility. When we negotiated the protocol for agreements for minority-language education and second-language instruction, which will come to an end in 2023, we agreed on the parameters for cooperation.