Official Languages committee  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, we are glad to have this opportunity to be here today to thank the Government of Canada for the support it has given to us through the roadmap. I just wanted to point out that you have all

Official Languages committee  So what have we done with the road map funding? So far we've put together three projects: SHOMI, StoryNet, and HOMEI, and we have another one called SOFTI that we're waiting for at this point. If someone wonders why all our things end in “I”, it turns out that way. They rejected

Official Languages committee  I echo the two previous speakers. Yes, we do need that money. The Canadian government, of course, under the Official Languages Act is committed to supporting minority communities. We're very happy to note that the current government, in the recent round of budget cuts, did not

Official Languages committee  I'd like to echo that QAHN is involved as well in partnerships with other organizations, as well as our 90 members, by the way, who are listed on the back of our brief. For example, we work with the Community Learning Centres. They're an important partner in our present-day activ

Official Languages committee  Frisky retirees.

Official Languages committee  I would just add that there is no question that we are entering another era, another phase of political life, here in Quebec. Elections are coming up. It's an issue. There's no getting around it, and that's one of the reasons we are so appreciative of the fact that we can provi

Official Languages committee  Yes. To go back to your larger issue about the whole question of language and minorities and so on, these are indeed sensitive areas, where you have groups that have come together for various reasons, sometimes because of political dominance at one point. The only thing I can s

Official Languages committee  I think we all appreciate the delicate balancing act that the minister and the ministry has to undertake in this whole question of funding to groups. We know there's one pot of money, that it's going to be shared among many people—not only among us here in this room, but also acr

Official Languages committee  The CBC Quebec community network is a very important element for communities outside of the Montreal area and so on. Yes, we can get TV signals and so on from the States, but the CBC itself is very, very important. Certainly in the border areas and so on, virtually that's what th

Official Languages committee  I can take one example. A.S. Johnson High School in Thetford Mines has a tremendous sense of volunteerism, thanks to the work of their local language community, MCDC. I think that of the 52 high school students or graduates, 36 of them are involved in volunteering in different th