Hon. Maria Chaput:

Honourable senators, my question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate. The health research initiative in official language minority communities has been cancelled. It was being managed by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

This initiative is key to the development of official language minority communities because it provides data on the health of these groups and such data are often requested when communities apply for funding from various departments. The research initiative has been cancelled, there are no data and the funding applications may be considered incomplete.

My question is as follows: before this research initiative was eliminated, did the government consult any official language minority communities? Before this research initiative was eliminated, did the government conduct an assessment, a study, of the impact this would have on official language minority communities?

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