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Official Languages committee That is my sincerest wish; that is all I can tell you. We will do everything possible to make it happen.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee We are not yet at that stage.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee We will test a number of versions of questions to find all the ones that work well.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee No, but we have already submitted the questions asked in previous inquiries to committee members. We are now in the process of determining how we might integrate them. However, we must first test the census and conduct qualitative tests. We have to put the questions to actual people to ensure they correctly understand them.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee Absolutely.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee It is.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee The fact that it is complex does not make it unfeasible.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee They really are prepared simultaneously in both languages.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee They are automatically prepared in both languages.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee The questionnaires are distributed to the entire population online. People can select their language of choice.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee We can definitely send you a description of it.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee Actually, we did not change the figures. You must also understand that a major change occurred in 2011. We had to use a new instrument. You may have realized that. We therefore notified people that they should exercise caution in drawing historical comparisons with data from previous censuses, those from 2006 to 2011.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee As my colleague Mr. Hamel mentioned, there were between 2,000 and 3,000 cases outside Quebec. Since those people should have been identified as francophones but were identified as anglophones, that of course had a slight impact. We are talking about a minor overestimation of the rate of bilingualism.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee Allow me to respond briefly. You should know that, pursuant to a standard issued by the federal government, in all documents, the French must precede the English in the French version, and the English must precede the French in the English version. This is why the language questions are the only census questions in which the order of the responses is reversed.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Official Languages committee As my colleague mentioned, from the moment the error was noted until the new data were released, many Statistics Canada employees worked hard to ensure the error did not affect other questionnaires elsewhere in the country. Canada has a population of 36 million inhabitants. We went over the processes with a fine-tooth comb to ensure the error had not occurred elsewhere.
October 31st, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Corbeil