Kevin O'Reilly

I appreciate the efforts of the Minister, as I said before, but I don't think he actually answered my question. There's been communications now from CSFTNO, specifically about the ministerial directive with corrections to the jurisdictional scan that was prepared and raising comments and concerns around the directive. Does the Minister actually intend to respond to that communication and has he opened up further discussions to improve and set that directive off in the right direction again?

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So can the Minister tell me when that proposal is submitted to Heritage Canada? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

[Translation] Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have some questions for the Minister of Education today, but I want to speak English. [Translation ends.] I do this in English, and I did want to give the Minister a fair heads up as well. Earlier today I spoke today about the Francophone community's lack of support for the new ministerial directive on student enrolment in French first language schools. Can the Minister of Education explain why he did not collaborate more closely with CSFTNO and APADY and share a draft of the ministerial directive with these organizations before it was finalized and...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I really look forward to getting this plan and the figures from the Minister. I appreciate the work of the department to put that together. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my opinion, if we had adopted a more cooperative approach we could have had the same satisfactory conclusion for everybody. I will have questions to ask the Minister of Education later today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. [Translation ends.]

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yes, I would really look forward to that information along with the transition plan that the Minister's promised so we could see what this new resource centre is actually going to look like and what it's going to do in relation to what was there. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. In the interest of moving this forward, I'll meet with the Minister. I'm prepared to meet with him anytime. But I continue to get communications from constituents. We got a letter most recently from APADY dated October 12th complaining about how they're not involved in the submission that's already gone in. I'm happy to meet with the Minister, but clearly this is not going in the collaborative fashion that our government should be moving forward on. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Can I just get a commitment then out of the Minister to provide that figure to me for what the resource centre renovations are going to cost? Can he just provide that to me? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm glad to hear that the proposal will finally be shared with the folks that took us to court. Look, I don't want to delay construction of this, nobody wants to delay construction of this, but we have an opportunity to get more money to do it right from the beginning, I mean maybe even save us some money. All I'm asking is the Minister willing to meet? My colleague had the same discussion on the floor of the House earlier and I'm prepared to go that route, but is the Minister prepared to commit to have a meeting like that soon so that everybody's on the same page in terms...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm just wondering if the Minister can tell us whether this funding is for the legendary law resource centre that the department was building? Is that what this money is for?