Obviously, if you're not at the table, you're not a serious part of the discussions.
When the non-mention--if I can use that term--in the throne speech of us officially as being one of the two official minority languages communities.... I'm not afraid to say that I'm naive enough to say to my DG, when I found out about it, that, well, maybe it's just a slip; maybe they're so used to saying francophone communities that maybe for once.... But she told me very clearly that nothing in the throne speech is a slip. Everything is there for a reason.
So when we see this strong mention of the support for francophone minorities outside Quebec and how that's going to be a priority, and no mention whatsoever of us, then we think, as the discussions continue....
I mentioned a little bit about ELAN, our English Language Arts Network. We at the QCGN, over the space of the last 12 months, have invested over $60,000 of manpower and money in developing an arts culture and heritage proposal for using the road map funding. For a whole year we've been getting signals that it's not quite this or we have to change that and they're thinking about it.
Now when you see something like this and you say if we're not even sure that we exist in the throne speech, what kind of signal does that send to a ministry that is administering that money and deciding how and where it's going to be spent? It becomes very frustrating.