Official Languages committee  As far as I know, we have not received any increase.

Official Languages committee  I can indicate that, as I noted earlier, all of the CanNor offices are designated under the Official Languages Act as providing bilingual services. Our website is in English and in French. We accept applications in English and in French. Our interactive applications are also in English and in French.

Official Languages committee  The main obstacles, as in most situations, are often funding and capacity. I certainly know that we support the Association franco-yukonnaise to be able to get more French employees. They do a lot of work. They give presentations to CEGEPs and other schools in Quebec to encourage francophone workers.

Official Languages committee  Right now, it's mainly finance. We certainly have lots of conversations with the francophone community. Certainly, they have challenges themselves with capacity, and we always work to find the capacity in the best way we can.

Official Languages committee  I don't exactly understand the question. It's mainly because we have not seen an increase in the action plan funding for our department. We have remained at $80,000 for a number of years and ongoing.

Official Languages committee  That's a great question. We work directly with the three associations. In particular, we often have ongoing conversations between them and our economic development officers in the north. We also participate in official-languages discussions in the territories about what is needed and how we can work collaboratively.

Official Languages committee  Thank you. To give you an example for NWT, we provided funding to the Conseil de développement économique des TNO, the francophone community in NWT. They provided entrepreneurial capacity-building tools and training in order to attract investments for the various businesses. We work with the francophone communities directly to make sure they provide the pertinent training for entrepreneurs who are French in NWT.

Official Languages committee  For CanNor, at this point in time, we do not have any programs that are supported.

Official Languages committee  It is a combination of the two. First, it is just for the francophone associations.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  In CanNor, we normally have an expression of interest period where everyone applies and we work with them. Prior to that, we have staff, economic development officers, who work with the francophone communities and work with the businesses. We have conversations before that period opens up and during that period.

Official Languages committee  Not necessarily, because we usually work very hard on the ground to understand the francophone community and support the businesses directly. We work with the francophone associations to clearly identify who is francophone with the communities in the north. They're quite tight, and they usually know who's who.

Official Languages committee  Thank you. That's a great question. I will say that we work directly with the francophone associations, and they work directly with all entrepreneurs. They provide things like training on how to be an entrepreneur. They assist them with getting their websites and businesses. A good example is in Nunavut.

Official Languages committee  That is correct. We directly fund the francophone associations in each territory. We focus on one in Yukon that represents all three—

Official Languages committee  —but we provide additional funding as needed on certain projects to individual ones.