Canadian Heritage committee  There are a lot of communities.

Canadian Heritage committee  My job as volunteer chair of this committee is to review applications that are made to the CHRP, evaluate those applications, along with the members and staff, and recommend to the minister on those applications that meet the criteria and have been vetted on all the areas I have

Canadian Heritage committee  We have received approximately 10 and we've approved, to the minister's office, three or four. They're being dealt with or will be dealt with.

Canadian Heritage committee  Sir, I have a lot of opinions. My role was to come here today, as I was asked, and I came here as the chair of this particular committee.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm trying, sir, but it's very easy to get into the political field, which I've tried to stay away from for the first 35 years of my community work. What you're asking me to do is to get into a political situation. I'm trying definitely not to do that. I'm sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  An apology was given. If the apology were to be given in the House of Commons, I'd say, “Great, even better”.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have varying degrees of understanding as to how much money was discussed, how much money was on the table, how much money was on a separate table, and what was agreed to by whom and when. I wasn't there personally. There's a whole personality and politics around these issues. T

Canadian Heritage committee  Scholarship funds are good, but the reason I'm involved passionately is that I feel we're unaware, sadly, of our total Canadian history, and in many cases, the Italian Canadian community across Canada is unaware. This will vary. In Montreal, they tend to be a little bit more pass

Canadian Heritage committee  There is a process. Some people obviously believe the bill is necessary, but there is a process that we are trying to get the community engaged in, to participate in. As a group, we have been involved only since March of this year. We've received approximately 10 applications th

Canadian Heritage committee  Madame, it's a valid question. I can't answer that. I don't claim to represent or speak for myriad organizations, all worthy but sometimes with different voices, across Canada. I can't speak to that. All I know is that right now we're trying to implement what is on the table as

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't know how to comment on that. We are simply implementing what has been decided by the present government. We're trying to implement some of the very same programs, perhaps by a different acronym than ACE, to acknowledge, commemorate, and educate. If you read the applicatio

Canadian Heritage committee  Our committee is a committee of the CHRP, so I am not here saying that I represent across Canada.... We are of Italian origin. We all have community experience and historical and other experience. We were asked to participate and help review and vet applications that would be rec

Canadian Heritage committee  You heard very correctly. We are here at the pleasure of the minister; we're not here to support or not support. We've been asked to do a job. I, with a 35-year history of Italian Canadian community development in Toronto, have been asked to promote and help CHRP through that p

Canadian Heritage committee  No, I don't represent the minister.

Canadian Heritage committee  We were appointed or asked to participate by the minister. Yes, sir.