Official Languages committee  I think, to start with, a good portion of our clients are bilingual. I could answer several ways. A lot of people are coming from other countries. They've been invited and accepted into Quebec even though quite often they don't have the language skills in English or French, but t

Official Languages committee  Do you want me to answer that?

Official Languages committee  It's interesting. I don't think we have ever had the conversation, but I know John mentioned that we don't consider ourselves helping to start English businesses. I think we help to start businesses, and as part of that we're retaining the community, so I don't think we have ever

Official Languages committee  Unfortunately, again, a lot of it falls under provincial jurisdiction, so a lot of the forms and paperwork that our clients have to fill out are in French. That's where some of the big challenges are.

Official Languages committee  For sure, and I think because we have a specific program for artists for helping them with their business skills—we've had it for about 10 or 12 years—that's why you see that number there. We have a specific business coach who deals with artist clients.

Official Languages committee  John?

Official Languages committee  The business plans are related to usually going to a bank or a funder, so I don't know offhand if the government is an impediment at this point, in terms of those papers.

Official Languages committee  I think it's interesting, because we didn't see a huge spike during that period. We saw it after that. I think we see what's happening on the ground before it actually happens in statistics. When the recession was happening, we were still seeing jobs. There wasn't the same kind

Official Languages committee  Yes, a little bit, or a precursor.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  I just want to support that. That's what we do at our organization. We help people through the red tape and through the business plans. We sit with them and it's hours of work. I think especially for the minority communities, there may be organizations in the community that are

Official Languages committee  CLDs are the local development centres, and I think they're funded—

Official Languages committee  Yes. I think in this case we won't blame the government.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  It's interesting, because I know initially the community was quite concerned about it in Quebec. The fear was that there was a lack of recognition for the role of the community organizations in that model. I think the amount of work that community organizations put into that tria