For better access to health services

In collaboration with Roger Farley, Health Canada

In October 2007, Health Canada announced additional funds to improve access to health services for official-language minority communities. That investment of $4.5 million will go toward initiatives and projects for networking, training and maintaining health professional positions. The Société Santé en français, whose objective is to promote the development of health in French for Francophone and Acadian minority communities in Canada, will receive $3 million to improve access to health services provided to Francophone communities outside Quebec. As for the Quebec Community Groups Network and McGill University, they will respectively receive $1.1 million and $400,000, also to improve access to health services provided to Anglophone communities in Quebec. Minister of Health Tony Clement said that "the funds will serve to foster information-sharing and the establishment of stronger ties among health sector partners, governments and communities in order to create healthier communities."

On the whole, Health Canada will have granted a total of $133.5 million between 2003–2004 and 2007–2008 to official language minority communities across the country as part of the Action Plan for Official Languages.

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