Official Languages committee  If I may, I will make a kind of general comment. With core funding—and I am not singling out any organization in particular—it is generally much more difficult to express concrete results than when you fund by project.

Official Languages committee  RESDAC's role often involved sharing information and mobilization. It is often more difficult, especially in terms of quantitative results, to say, for example, that this cost such and such an amount, gave such and such a result, and trained so many people. However, it is much ea

Official Languages committee  We had some measures, but they were much more qualitative than quantitative because of the nature of the activities. I am saying, above all, that when you invest money in projects, it's much easier to present the results. At that time, having to choose between the two types of f

Official Languages committee  I was at the department, but not at the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.

Official Languages committee  I do not have specific quantitative data on that. In general, we can identify the number of Canadians who have been trained under our program, or the number of organizations that have provided essential skills training. This sort of thing was much more difficult to achieve when

Official Languages committee  I cannot comment on what other departments do, but what I mean—

Official Languages committee  Actually, when we say that other groups are doing the same work as RESDAC, that is not entirely accurate. RESDAC was probably quite unique in its niche, as a national organization serving its members first and foremost. What we are saying is that there are a number of organizati

Official Languages committee  In each province, there are still some organizations that provide services in those communities.

Official Languages committee  They are not always provincial agencies.

Official Languages committee  There are charities. We are consulting with them all to determine the best way to invest in this area.

Official Languages committee  In fact, I look forward to the consultations, to hear what communities have to say about this. In the past, we had made decisions that, in the commissioner’s view, did not sufficiently take into account what the communities said. So we intend to listen to them before taking a po

Official Languages committee  If I may, I will clarify what is meant by others. In fact, we replaced core funding with project funding. In our tenders, we have focused on a number of projects that—

Official Languages committee  What we have to take into account is that there have been some consultations. As Ms. Bertrand was saying earlier, the core funding did not end for RESDAC only. At the time, 23 organizations were working on essential skills and literacy. According to the strategy, funds allocated

Official Languages committee  Some organizations have closed their doors.

Official Languages committee  One of the reasons is that the funding stopped, yes.