Official Languages committee  The amount of $1.2 million represents 5% of the budget over five years.

Official Languages committee  I can speak to the administrative process.

Official Languages committee  I'll only take a few seconds. Regardless, Mauril Bélanger, who at the time was the minister responsible for official languages, made the same request. He told us that we had too many priorities and he asked us to choose one. Our priority is very simple, and it took the community

Official Languages committee  We're talking about positive measures and I think that should automatically include provisions for anything that affects communities.

Official Languages committee  I think that francophone communities in Canada will have to adapt to new demographic realities. There is a huge migration of people to the West, to Alberta, and these people are settling in the towns and cities. So rather than trying to continually struggle to unite francophones

Official Languages committee  A good example is all the money that is transferred for infrastructure. Western Economic Diversification Canada sends money to the province, which passes it along to the municipalities. Since that money goes through three levels of government, we need to lobby all three levels in