Official Languages committee  It is a huge problem because the waiting list varies depending on the season. We often say that the famous waiting lists are not waiting lists, they are lists of francophones that we are losing. They cannot afford to stay on the waiting list. They end up finding another child car

Official Languages committee  That is a great question. It varies depending on the people we deal with at the department. It varies widely from one department to another or one government service to another. Sometimes we deal with good people who understand our situation. We call them champions. Other times,

Official Languages committee  Is one of my colleagues able to answer that question?

Official Languages committee  That is right, we have not yet received the 20% increase in funding. Last week, we received a nice letter telling us that the money was coming, but it still has not come. We are in a similar situation to what my colleagues have described. Usually, the Department of Education, thr

Official Languages committee  If there is one thing that bothers me about this entire funding issue, it's the fact that there's no continuity. We're required to submit every project again, changing only one or two sentences in the description from one year to the next, to obtain funding, even if the project i

Official Languages committee  Yes, I'm going to take advantage of your question to tell you about one of my dreams.

Official Languages committee  It's nice to have dreams, isn't it?

Official Languages committee  Sometimes we have a few too many.

Official Languages committee  If we want our young people to remain francophone, we have to provide them with jobs, but we also have to make them love the culture. How can they be proud of that culture when they listen to radio and watch television that has no francophone content? They have to find the franco

Official Languages committee  It would be nice. That's my dream.

Official Languages committee  Have we already used up the five minutes allotted to us?

Official Languages committee  All right; that's fine.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank you, at the outset, for listening to us. We officially invited you in April, when I was with Mr. Barry and another colleague from the board. Thank you for accepting our invitation. It feels good to know that our elected representatives somet

Official Languages committee  That is a good question. This gives me an opportunity to speak, finally; I am pleased. That's it, you won't have a choice, now you are going to have to come visit us. That said, we were not really consulted on this, but we don't necessarily have to look at things from that angl

Official Languages committee  Yes. I noticed that the last questions pertained to Winnipeg. I know we are in Winnipeg, but the situation in Saskatchewan also warrants consideration. Either we officially invite you to visit Saskatchewan so we can lay it out for you, or we take a bit more time today to present