I invite you to read our document, because I cannot present it to you in five minutes. Our funding was cut. We received a very contradictory message when the Court Challenges Program was abolished. We often feel—and perhaps this is the case in other provinces as well—that some kind of territorial bilingualism is being established, that bilingualism will only exist elsewhere, that it will only exist in Quebec, and that the francophonie will be limited to Quebec.
This is a very bad message for several reasons. Budgets were cut and moreover, a very direct message was sent to the Saskatchewan government, that has been somewhat reluctant in the past and with which we are now working to improve our relations. Our provincial government is wondering why it should act, given that we are not even supported by the federal government. As far as we are concerned, we want to work together with the provincial government to bring back these programs, because they meet the needs of the citizens of Saskatchewan.
L'Assemblée communautaire fransaskoise is an entity that coordinates all activities, by implementing an overall community development plan in collaboration with the associations' network. The associations that lost their funding also lost their means to do their work. Instead of making progress, we are stagnating or falling behind.