Status of Women committee  Yes. We have numbers. We'll get you the numbers for sure.

Status of Women committee  The health care and social—

Official Languages committee  In our call for tenders, when we award funding for offering services to entrepreneurs in official language minority communities, our guides set out our expectations regarding official languages, which are part of our evaluation criteria. For example, when we do an entrepreneursh

Official Languages committee  In our entrepreneurship programming, the contribution agreement spells out a range of reporting requirements, so the quarterly claims come in and annual reports come in, which allow our officers to do a paper review. Then we have ongoing engagement with our recipients, so those a

Official Languages committee  I can speak to the entrepreneurship programming that we have in the department. We hear that entrepreneurs are busy people. They're problem-solvers on an ongoing basis. Our intermediaries provide a range of services and a different level of engagement with the entrepreneurs, so t

Official Languages committee  The programming that I'm talking about is their entrepreneurship programming, which is over and above the official-language minority programming that we have in the department.

Official Languages committee  It's separate, and it's generalized to the population. We try to enable organizations to help businesses through the provision of free services and supports. We don't necessarily do a direct contribution to a business or even an indirect financial contribution to the business.

Official Languages committee  Yes, certainly. We can provide you with the list of all our intermediary organizations. Everything is on our website and so we can send you all those links.

Official Languages committee  Are you talking about the main barriers to participation in economic terms?

Official Languages committee  I would say that the communities face a series of challenges. Often, it is access to services. They have to be able to find someone in their niche who offers those services in the language of their choice. An entrepreneur in an official language minority community often faces qu

Official Languages committee  For our entrepreneurship programs, our approach is to go through intermediaries. For the Canadian Digital Adoption Program or CDAP, for example, we work with the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec and the Réseau des sociétés d'aide au développement des collectivités to

Official Languages committee  In this case, the Fédération and the Réseau provide services to entrepreneurs in anglophone and francophone communities in Quebec, in general. It is the same thing, for example, for the Strategy...

Official Languages committee  There aren't necessarily budgets planned, but the data has to be collected. When we give funding to the intermediaries, we ask them to provide us with data regarding the sex and community of origin of the recipients and with a report on the number of people from official languag

Official Languages committee  We would have to ask the intermediaries to provide that information and I would also have to check whether the studies clause that we require all our recipients to sign provides for the information to be distributed.

Official Languages committee  If I may, I will answer the question. In the programming we offer, whether under the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy, Futurpreneur Canada, or the Black Entrepreneurship Program, we incorporate obligations into our contribution agreement. There are very specific clauses that requ