Official Languages committee  That is not a bad idea. If you want to manage budgets, which will certainly be very large, you will also want some kind of technical support. At least I know that I would not want to manage them alone. I would like to highlight the importance of being inclusive when planning som

Official Languages committee  I will be brief. I think it is important to increase our understanding and our knowledge of the communities. I am Acadian and I have had the privilege of living in Nova Scotia and Quebec. I am familiar with this issue. When I was in Quebec, I spoke about Acadia and people were n

Official Languages committee  It is important to keep in mind the context and the scale. There are specific contexts and specific scales. For example, if funding is granted to towns or provinces, there would be very strong linguistic clauses associated with that funding because those bodies have the ability t

Official Languages committee  Our organization, like many other community organizations across the country, obviously wants to be involved. We also want to host events that bring young people together. This goes back to the comment I made earlier when I was talking about initiatives by and for young people. W

Official Languages committee  I think that your question involves two important issues: representation and accessibility. With regard to representation, it is important that the communities, whether they be anglophone or francophone, feel as though they are represented in the celebrations, regardless of where

Official Languages committee  It must be equal, based on their weight and their role. I think it is just important that they be represented. You spoke about Alberta. Some of the first settlers of Alberta were francophone. It is thus important that francophones be represented. This also holds true across the

Official Languages committee  I think that it is important to make the distinction between operations and the service offering on one hand, and promotion on the other. I cannot see how a $5,000 contribution agreement for a cultural group in Havre-aux-Maisons in the Magdalen Islands could involve the requirem

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. Creativity and youth do go hand in hand. It is a positive stereotype. However, I work in the legal field so creativity is not really my area of expertise. For the past little while, we have been talking about an independent organization. I believe t

Official Languages committee  I am going to echo the comments made by Mr. Thompson and Ms. Kenny. Even within the government, it is not just Canadian Heritage that will have an interest in the 150th anniversary celebrations. It would be worrisome if that were the case. This event concerns all departments, and

Official Languages committee  That would be an excellent thing to mention.

Official Languages committee  We definitely agree with Ms. Kenny and the FCFA position on creating an organization to coordinate and oversee these celebrations. I would also like to take the opportunity to properly answer Mr. Godin. At the beginning of this meeting, he referred to the Vancouver Games and how

Official Languages committee  If we want to have that kind of impact, if we want, 50 years from now, the young people—they will not be as young then—to come to this same committee and tell us that they kept such and such an object from the 2017 celebrations, young people will have to participate. It is also

Official Languages committee  Thank you. Hello everyone. Before I begin I want to apologize in advance to the interpreters. I hope I will not have to be stopped three times for speaking too fast like the last time. The other thing that is different this time from my last appearance is that I will not get th

Official Languages committee  I believe you're right on that point, but I think the government has a responsibility in that regard and that the communities must also accept a share of it if they want to survive in the long term. In the communities across the country, whether it be in the cultural field, youth

Official Languages committee  In New Brunswick, one issue has been very important in recent years, the issue of bilingual commercial signage and the need for a community to be reflected in the advertising landscape. I believe that need is also present in the media landscape. I believe it is essential for the