Official Languages committee  Very well.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much.

Official Languages committee  I am asking the federal government to consider provisional funding. Various approaches could be used. The federal government has several mechanists at its disposal to support the development of communities. Your colleague's suggestion is very intelligent. The francophone hub also

Official Languages committee  With your permission, I will tell you how the francophone immigration dossier came to be on the radar screen of minority francophone communities. Before I became Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada, I was Principal of Glendon College in Toronto. At the time, I was struc

Official Languages committee  I'm not worried, because the university is already well known. We can count on incredible support in Toronto from English language universities, the anglophone community and francophone ethnocultural communities. To get back to settlement, I would like to remind you that the exec

Official Languages committee  You are quite right.

Official Languages committee  For the time being, I have still not received any formal communication from the government. Like all of you, I have heard the political statement. Our funding is based on the activities underway, which will end around January 15. I am telling you that the situation is urgent. Ou

Official Languages committee  Of course. We don't want to fire our employees, and we don't want to lose our momentum. We know that this decision was made by a new government. In that regard, a bit more time may be needed to remedy the situation. What is important for us is to keep the file alive and to have

Official Languages committee  Well, by tomorrow.

Official Languages committee  The reason why I said January 15—I also said “tomorrow”—is that it is still urgent. We have financial burdens, employees to pay, and we have to cover the university's operating costs. We were still expecting the provincial government to give us what had already been approved for

Official Languages committee  Thank you Mr. Chair and respected members of Parliament. You said this was a historic moment, and that is true for me, too. I have not been in this room in nearly 12 years, and I previously appeared here a number of times. There is no doubt that this committee is one of my favou