Official Languages committee  Yes. I'll let my president do his wrap-up.

Official Languages committee  The QCGN appeared before your colleagues at the Senate Standing Committee on Official Languages last week, providing our community's comments on the Government of Canada's response to the committee's substantive report, “The Vitality of Quebec's English-Speaking Communities: From

Official Languages committee  We on the ground sometimes don't feel the efforts of coordination. We feel the departments are still working in silos. It's so important, I would think, for the francophone community outside Quebec, as well as for the English-speaking community, to feel interdepartmental work. I

Official Languages committee  I think the will is there. I think the implication is that the involvement or the implementation is difficult.

Official Languages committee  Resources that we have.... There were questions around our funding. We get resources, and part of those resources are to help departments understand the monitoring on the ground. Are there enough resources? We could always do a better job. We could go through each of the departme

Official Languages committee  Mr. Weston, are you talking about the QCGN particularly?

Official Languages committee  To answer your question I'm going to rely on comments from our members. I think that would be an important place. I think—I not only think, I know—our members believe that the QCGN provides a value-added to their organizations. It's not all even, but our members are working on th

Official Languages committee  It was started 15 years ago. We are into our 16th year.

Official Languages committee  Fifteen years ago, the QCGN had no budget. I do not know what the budget was 10 years ago. I did not know that I would be asked this question and I did not bring those figures. We could provide you with the answer as a follow-up. Over the past 10 years, the QCGN has begun to dem

Official Languages committee  I think it would be important to have access to best practices and information at a midpoint to make enlightened decisions. I would say this about anything.

Official Languages committee  The bill is under study at the QCGN. We have looked at previous bills from the Bloc and the NDP, and we are sensitive to the fact that it might be seen as an important avancée for the francophones in Quebec. Right now we are examining the impact on the English-speaking community,

Official Languages committee  Yes. We are presently working with our elected officials, our board, to examine the situation to see how and if we can take a stand on this. It will be made available to you.

Official Languages committee  When I mentioned a beautiful success story that was part of the roadmap, I was referring to the Cultural Development Fund. If there is something that we should keep, it would be the fund pertaining to schools. We have to be able to see how we can work in our schools to try to sho

Official Languages committee  I would be pleased to do so.

Official Languages committee  We are a bit in the catch-up phase on that. We had a plan up until 2010. We asked that it be extended. Our members were in favour of extending it. We wanted to do some work in the community with respect to our longer-term priorities. Earlier, we talked about a five-year scenari