Organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and held six times a year, the Breakfast on the Hill Lecture Series brings together parliamentarians, government officials, the media and the general public to hear important research on pertinent issues. On December 4th, 2008, Edmund A. Aunger, Professor of Political Science at the Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta, delivered a speech entitled "The Forgotten Promise: French in Alberta".