Official Languages committee  I can give you overall figures, but I do not have the figures for each organization. For example, regarding the Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities, where the funds go directly to economic development groups outside of Quebec and in Quebec, we are talking abo

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely.

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. We are collating the figures for 2008 and 2009 and they will be published later. We know very well that this year, in accordance with the Roadmap, more than $180 million are being allocated to fund various initiatives by various departments. These funds are granted to

Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  If we look at the Roadmap initiatives as a whole, we see that large sums will be provided for communities, for instance, all the economic development funds that will go through the economic development groups such as the RDÉE Canada, which has branches such as RDÉE Ontario. In tu

Official Languages committee  I would like to make a clarification. The Roadmap refers to amounts to be used solely for francophone immigration. So this affects all provinces, with the exception of Quebec. The Roadmap is concerned with francophone immigration, so essentially outside Quebec. In short, with re

Official Languages committee  Honourable member, I would invite you to speak to our colleagues at Immigration Canada. The COFI are perhaps part of the programs and the relationship between the Department of Immigration and Quebec. We do not have any specific information about this.

Official Languages committee  It is $14 million over four years.

Official Languages committee  With regard to support for immigration to New Brunswick, ACOA received $10 million over five years. Also the Music Showcases for Artists from Official Language Minority Communities program under Canadian Heritage has a $4.5 million budget over five years. I could send you a list

Official Languages committee  Thanks to some 10 or 15 new initiatives, various departments that were not part of the previous action plan received funding. Among the new funds, we could mention those allocated to Public Works for the implementation of a linguistic gateway, translation branch, and the language

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely. To give you a specific answer to your question, there will be a difference between the new initiatives and the addition of funds to existing initiatives.

Official Languages committee  Yes, correct.

Official Languages committee  If we renewed funding for the last of the five years, it would not equal $1 billion, but approximately $800 million. Money was added in order to reach that amount.

Official Languages committee  First, funds have been added to the envelopes that have been maintained. As Mr. Scrimger said, Health Canada has received additional funds for existing envelopes. This is an example of an increase. The same thing is true for Justice Canada, where amounts were added to existing en