Justice committee  Actually, the funding allotted to information and promotion has stayed basically the same; it's just our activities that have changed. At the beginning, people didn't know us, and we wanted to make sure that we knew them, so we consulted people. We went all across Canada and did

Justice committee  I'm not sure what the decision will be. The contribution agreement that we have presently ends at March 31, 2017. Since the challenges program has been abolished, the language rights support program was created, but only for language rights. It didn't have any quality component l

Justice committee  Maybe Professor Pierre Foucher wants to answer that.

Justice committee  That's totally correct. Most of the funding that we refuse is because they do not meet the criteria. The first few years that we were open, all the ones that we refused were because they did not meet the criteria. It's only in the last three years that we've not only refused th

Justice committee  No, I'm good, unless you don't want me to be first.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to speak to you this morning about the language rights support program, the LRSP. As you know, the LRSP is the result of an out-of-court settlement after the abolition of the Programme de contestation judiciaire. The contribution agreement un

Justice committee  I'm going to ask Guylaine Loranger to answer that question.

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee. As the director of the Language Rights Support Program, the LRSP, it is with pleasure that I give you an overview of the Language Rights Support Program. I will be followed by Guylaine Loranger,