Official Languages committee  Correct. That's one of the desirable options, meaning that the money does not necessarily have to go through the provincial government, nor that matching funding be required systematically.

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. I won't repeat Mr. Prud'homme's exact words, but as far as we are concerned, I agree with what he said. Regular, permanent, indexed funding that truly takes local circumstances into account, is what's needed.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much.

Official Languages committee  Yes and no. We receive funding for a quota 575 full-time students, but we actually admit 750.

Official Languages committee  They aren't funded at all, except for a portion of their registration fees.

Official Languages committee  That's the $8 million we discussed earlier. We were supposed to get $3.7 million from the federal government, which was confirmed to me, and the rest was to come from the provincial government, but it hasn't arrived. We've received nothing, zero.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  Yes, it will take a massive mobilization. I also think the present principle of complete symmetry between francophone institutions outside Quebec and anglophone institutions in Quebec will have to be reconsidered. Francophone institutions outside Quebec are in a pitiful state co

Official Languages committee  At Campus Saint-Jean, I haven't seen any of that for 20 years, except for the science labs. So let's be realistic.

Official Languages committee  I fully agree with my colleague.

Official Languages committee  Yes and no. The province gives the university a quota, and the university sets quotas for the faculties. As for infrastructure, Campus Saint-Jean's infrastructure hasn't been renovated in 20 years, apart from the science laboratories, which recently were completely renovated in

Official Languages committee  That's my fear. However, it's another matter whether the University of Alberta, which enjoys a sound reputation, would want to find itself in the same situation and be criticized for abandoning an institution such as Campus Saint-Jean or one of its faculties. Paradoxically, that,

Official Languages committee  I won't speak to that, but I must say the situation is extremely odd. Here's another example. The Alberta government has prohibited the University of Alberta from using its reserve fund. As a result, I have to cut courses and can't replace five of the professors whose positions I

Official Languages committee  Obviously. That's absolutely correct. That's why we have to get ourselves out of this situation, not one institution at a time, but all of us together. That's precisely what ACUFC proposed in the brief that it submitted to the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages and t

Official Languages committee  I'm not very familiar with those figures, but I can tell you that underfunding is a fact, if only because, when you consider funding a minority educational institution, you have to understand that there are additional costs. Just to give you an example, all the faculties of the