Canadian Heritage committee  It started right after the Prime Minister announced in December 2016 that we were going to enact an indigenous aboriginal law. Following this announcement, I think, the department started working with national organizations to determine how we would go about engaging with people.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we could talk about foyers linguistiques or apprentissage linguistique in French. So these are examples of what we have tried to do. However, one of the common elements was not to limit this right.

Canadian Heritage committee  During our discussions, it proved very difficult to define the concept of language rights. Everyone agreed not to limit this right, but rather to keep the interpretation broad. However, we tried to identify examples of communities' efforts to maintain and revitalize their langua

Canadian Heritage committee  I would like to add a small nuance. The examples that the minister gave are those of organizations we have worked with to do our outreach, such as the Council of Yukon First Nations. We did the same thing with MK in the Atlantic region.

Canadian Heritage committee  During the early engagement, we were meeting with language experts, academics. They would have been invited. I would say that was from post-secondary education. When we reached out to the community in what we called the intensive engagement, this would have been at the local leve

Canadian Heritage committee  For the early engagement, we basically used lists. Every time we were reaching out in the community, we would reach out to the people in that region. For the community, it's the community that decided who to bring. We also were working with the three national indigenous organizat

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, but I have no idea. I did not participate in the program. I'm really sorry.

Canadian Heritage committee  No, not at all. I was looking after the bill.