Official Languages committee  Specifically, the $4 million in funding under the social partnership initiative in official-language minority communities.

Official Languages committee  Precisely.

Official Languages committee  The FCFA?

Official Languages committee  Yes, the infrastructure. Successful identity building is the other one. Our two biggest challenges are successful identity building and infrastructure. School divisions in some regions have trouble providing access to community members whose first language is not necessarily Fre

Official Languages committee  No. I meant community and cultural centres and the health of our institutional infrastructure. For example, cultural infrastructure is needed. Some areas have no place where people can go to have French cultural experiences. So we are still very much in need of infrastructure.

Official Languages committee  We haven't talked much about that thus far, but it's an excellent question. Both official languages should be on equal footing. We should be very cautious about any measures that diminish the status of French and ensure that we aren't about to embark on a path that diminishes th

Official Languages committee  We have long supported the principle of official language minority communities having the right to express themselves, as well as be heard and understood, in their official language when appearing before a judge. We think it's a wonderful bill and sincerely hope it will be passed

Official Languages committee  That would be great. Destination Canada gave us a gateway into source countries, enabling us to reach out to people wanting to come to Canada to live. We were able to let them know that our official language communities existed and could offer them a hospitable place to live, and

Official Languages committee  In losing Destination Canada, we lost the only marketing tool that gave us that kind of exposure.

Official Languages committee  It wasn't done.

Official Languages committee  We care about anything having to do with full implementation of the Official Languages Act. As we mentioned in our remarks, we feel very strongly about the need for the government to truly implement part VII, the part of the act addressing the vitality and development of our comm

Official Languages committee  That's a great question, Mr. Samson. We were just talking about that this afternoon, pointing to the need to revisit the definitions of the terms “francophone” and “francophonie”, to give them common meanings that make sense. That includes for the census.

Official Languages committee  Pass it quickly.

Official Languages committee  No, we don't have that kind of data.

Official Languages committee  Right now, our greatest expectation is to be able to make a real contribution to every step of the next roadmap, as well as evaluate every step of the current roadmap. In other words, we want to help evaluate current measures in order to shape the next roadmap.