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Official Languages committee  I don't want to speak for them. The act gives them all the same status.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  The Yukon Languages Act recognizes French, English and the aboriginal languages. Yukon has no Inuit population, but it does have an aboriginal population made up of a number of nations that speak various languages.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  You are all welcome in our community any time. Don't be shy. It's not cold in the summer; it's actually very nice.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  There are different aspects to your question and I will start with the last, that is how the French Embassy assists us. In the Yukon, there is a group of people of French origin who work jointly with us and who help us. For example, the embassy provides us with funding for Ciné-France.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  No. I don't want to mislead you. I said that the Canada-community agreements represented about 25% of my budget. For immigration, it's the federal government, in accordance with agreements. There's an agreement with the federal government for economic development. Therefore, there are various sources of funding.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  I have a short answer: no, because you have to have a budget review mechanism. A budget is a forecast. We revise our budgets. What's difficult is that we're being asked to draw up a budget now and we're being told that the amount won't increase. That's not realistic. It's not difficult to draw up a budget and put numbers to things, but our sources of funding are being limited.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  You're right, Mr. Godin: the community needs support. The University of Moncton has a research centre on linguistic minorities. Mr. Rodrigue Landry, a researcher and professor, said it bluntly: if there's no balance struck between community infrastructure and health care centres, schools, and so forth, the community will not be able to survive nor flourish.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  To flourish, you need a balance, you need a strong and viable community structure. The day you stop moving forward, you start to go backward. My approach is positive, so that we can get more and so that tomorrow morning, when we knock on your door to obtain funding to expand our school which is almost full, we'll get money for the high school.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  That means that people have worked hard.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  Yes, but they worked hard even before the existence of the Standing Committee on Official Languages—

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  I wrote a little brief in the 1960s. When we prepared our first brief, before the Official Languages Act even existed, we stated that we needed strong communities.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  In the 1960s in Canada there was no Official Languages Act nor any recognition of minority communities. An inquiry asked what was needed to ensure the vitality of these communities. When comes time for us to be accountable, I'm asked to justify our existence for a period of one year.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre

Official Languages committee  What's interesting is that today more young people between the ages of 19 and 25 come back to the Yukon than there are people of the same age group who are born here and who never left. Our programs do attract a good number of young people. It's not perfect, but one of the most important things for us to do is to stay in touch with our youth, the next generation, the people who will have their own families.

April 3rd, 2008Committee meeting

Régis St-Pierre