Official Languages committee  With your permission, I would just like to add a brief point concerning training. In nursing and social work at the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, it's absolutely essential that students be able to speak English when they do their internships because that increases thei

Official Languages committee  The students who come to Manitoba have student visas. After earning their degrees, they are virtually ready to be hired. It is easier to go looking for immigrants and to increase the rate if those people have been trained at Canadian schools and have Canadian diplomas. We don't n

Official Languages committee  Yes, there were some government initiatives. We went there with the assistant deputy minister for immigration, Mr. Gerry Clément, at one point. I also think initiatives are being introduced because all the universities also want to have international access, in view of the fact t

Official Languages committee  More and more so.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Godin. I know it was you who introduced the bill. We spoke out as representatives of the Société franco-manitobaine on the question.

Official Languages committee  We're in favour of having bilingual judges on the Supreme Court. We said so and we said it in all the forums offered to us.

Official Languages committee  Talking about that, I believe I partly answered John Weston's question. In our minds, the francophonie is here to stay.

Official Languages committee  The francophone communities and their local allies have to... There are also anglophones who speak French. They are allies. I believe that a symbol as powerful as the Supreme Court should reflect that linguistic duality. Anglophones are increasingly learning French. There is a l

Official Languages committee  In my presentation, I talked about the 40 francophone villages located in the far south and even a little to the west in Manitoba. In fact, the dynamic should come from those communities. They are very deeply rooted in the francophonie and have to find ways for people to put down

Official Languages committee  The Festival Théâtre jeunesse.

Official Languages committee  I think the thing is to find opportunities to work together; that's fundamental. For example, the Centrallia project will take place in October 2010 and will attract people from all countries in the world to Winnipeg. The project is being carried out jointly by ANIM, which is the

Official Languages committee  As we've often said, we went to plant a seed. Obviously, it takes time to grow. The first thing we did before that was with regard to postsecondary education. In the 2000s, I went to Senegal, and I think that, currently, if we look at what is going on at the Collège universitaire

Official Languages committee  I think assimilation could be a concern across the country. It's important to provide the francophone populations with opportunities to carry on activities in French, and to do so from early childhood. I think it starts there. Francophone families have to be proud of their langu

Official Languages committee  That's provocation when I hear that. The francophonie and francophones are part of this country, whether they are concentrated in Quebec or elsewhere. That's what makes Canada. If you polarize by saying that all francophones are in Quebec and that the ROC—the rest of Canada—is E

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much. Work is indeed what determines whether immigrants will settle in a given region. It's a fundamental factor. There's also the entire matter of support from social networks. These people have to be associated with something. That's also a fundamental aspect.