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Official Languages committee May I add something?
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Unfortunately, it's not the same with regard to Public Services and Procurement Canada. At this time, the people in that department do not understand the situation and don't see the difference at all. They always send us back to their evaluation matrix and to the metadata of the
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Yesterday, we met with the assistant commissioner. She said to go and fight before the courts, which is rather serious! You know how those court cases will go; they will take five years, everyone will be dead, and we will probably win, but we will have bled to death in the meanti
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Yes, it would be those three organizations.
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee It would be a one-year commitment, in other words, covering 12 months.
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee That's the fastest way to do it.
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Yes, that's correct.
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee These would be transitional measures for the next 12 months, long enough for us to put the rest of the action plan in place. We are going to diversify our resources and work within existing budgets. That's what we want to do, but we need time. With that amount, we could do the wo
March 21st, 2018Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Good afternoon. Yes, I'm ready.
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for having us today. I'm here before you this afternoon as the executive director of l'Association de la presse francophone but also as an authorized representative of the Official Language Community Media Consortium, which represen
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee As part of the Action Plan for Official Languages, an envelope of $14.5 million over five years was allocated to official language minority community media. Of this amount, $4.5 million was allocated to youth internships and $10 million to strategic projects. We were asking for o
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee It's the same thing for English-language media in Quebec.
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Yes, I was talking about English-language media in Quebec and French-language media in the rest of Canada. The program isn't suitable, and neither is the envelope.
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee Think of regions, such as the Gaspé region and the lower north shore, where the media is struggling to survive.
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon
Official Languages committee It forgot us a long time ago. In 2016, we even submitted a complaint to the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages to object to it. We tried to negotiate with Public Services and Procurement Canada and to explain the situation. Cossette Media is responsible for buying
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
Linda Lauzon