Official Languages committee  Monsieur, merci. Mr. Chairman, members of Parliament, colleagues, and friends from other official language minority communities, good morning. Thank you for this opportunity to start the day--fireworks, I guess, maybe, but a lot of speakers, yes. It is a pleasure to be with yo

Official Languages committee  Thank you. In his presentation to this committee on April 3, Mr. Régis St-Pierre of the Association of franco-yukonnaise mentioned the research of Dr. Rodrigue Landry from the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities. Dr. Landry often states that institutional in

Official Languages committee  Listening to my colleague Cyrilda's presentation, I thought I could name five of the 22 organizations that experienced the same situation last summer. They have to close offices for two months because the cheque is supposed to arrive in September. We've just asked when the agreem

Official Languages committee  Every year we're asked to organize a work plan based on a 12-month budget, and the money doesn't come until six months later, if it comes at all. However, we have to hire people, and we don't know what the total grant will be. We hire people not even knowing whether they'll be th

Official Languages committee  As regards quality, that's one of the sectors where there has been the most progress in recent years, thanks to the Community Health and Social Services Network (CHSSH), one of our members, which works with Health Canada. A lot of money is invested in that field. In the very isol

Official Languages committee  We can't be satisfied when we only get 25% of the annual budget. We're told to start the year with that money. We aren't given the total budget planned. We don't know where we're headed. In six months, the $150,000 budgeted may only be $100,000, and we'll have hired people when w

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, on behalf of the QCGN, we'd like to thank the committee for receiving us again this year. As you will have already heard from Lise, some of the problems are still there. I'll talk a little about that, but also about some more general things

Official Languages committee  We have 32.

Official Languages committee  Yes, every year it's a whole new application. It's new program funding. We have four organizations for the first time now with multi-year funding. Obviously that is a good part of the solution, but I would say it's not only multi-year funding that is--

Official Languages committee  It's the same as you heard before, in November.

Official Languages committee  What they received, as I said, is the 25% advance. We're given 25% based on the funding of the previous year, but for the current year you don't know if your funding is going up or down. You don't know what's--

Official Languages committee  Yes, to their credit margin in June and July. That's what happens, yes. We also didn't talk about the 20%, which is the project funding. Of the $3.4 million, 80% is core funding and 20% is projects. So I guess we don't talk about the projects, because they say we're complaining

Official Languages committee  Yes, well, they get credit margins.

Official Languages committee  The times that have been mentioned so far have been the same for the last three or four years. When I talk about project funding, remember I said you get your funding in September for a project that was supposed to start in April. You're six months into it, so you get creative. Y

Official Languages committee  I'll be quite brief. First, a 25% advance that arrives in June isn't an advance. An advance is an amount that arrives on April 1. Second, we talked a little about access to Roadmap funding. It's not that there isn't any money for the anglophone communities in Quebec, especially