Official Languages committee  The Société Santé en français is working on the entire human resource issue and looking for ways to facilitate the mobility of personnel in the health sector. The work is underway and you will certainly be receiving recommendations on the subject. Yes, this is a possible option.

Official Languages committee  Yes, we could do it. Quebec uses Nunavik, the northern—

Official Languages committee  Yes, there are agreements between the Nunavik regional government in Northern Quebec where the Inuit population lives, the Quebec Ministry of Health regarding this type of rotation. The Nunavut Health Department is open to the idea. However, it will be more costly. The important

Official Languages committee  Yes, because of the remoteness of the communities, but this problem has nothing to do with critical mass. A population of 1,200 requires a certain amount of health services, school services for families, children, etc. We must note that there is a critical mass. We hear a great

Official Languages committee  You want to know how the kids get to school?

Official Languages committee  As far as the francophone population is concerned, the vast majority of them live in Iqaluit. So there is a school there. Since Iqaluit is no more than five kilometres long, that would be easy to organize. There are also francophones in other Nunavut communities, such as Pangnir

Official Languages committee  There is only one answer, and it is brief. We have to lobby in French if we want to attract people to a given place. Let me give you an example: the Department of Health has already tried to recruit doctors to serve the francophone community, but in vain. That's because the depar

Official Languages committee  I was in the process of explaining what you could do from your end. One thing that the committee can do is to continue drafting well-written reports analyzing the situation. A well-structured analysis can help people who want to understand how the Official Languages Act is being

Official Languages committee  I would like to answer the question that you have asked us twice. The committee supported the action taken by the Société Santé en français. You adopted an approach and it must be maintained. The Société Santé en français has requested that its budget be renewed so that it can co

Official Languages committee  The letter is dated January 17 and we received it on the 22. It is essential that we continue supporting the initiatives of the Société Santé en français, which provides us with the means and the leaders to take action. What do we do with the money we receive? In Nunavut, we rec

Official Languages committee  Perhaps Sandra could better explain how the agreements between governments work with respect to eligibility rules. Health care cards and the rules to facilitate receiving services are important, given that there are good agreements between the provinces and the territories. It is

Official Languages committee  I would say two things. People say that they are creatures of the federal government, but if you were to speak to the Inuit community, to the leaders who established Nunavut, who negotiated the agreement over 20 years, they would tell you that perhaps it is their creation as well

Official Languages committee  As you probably know, 93% of the Nunavut government's budget comes from the federal government: that is one basic economic fact. Yes, there is an extremely important and crucial investment made by the federal government, and negotiations are under way at the moment. It would be b

Official Languages committee  First, the Trois-Soleils school, a francophone school with francophone staff, offers schooling from kindergarten to grade 9. Parents from that community would like the school to offer a full high school program in order to make sure that the children remain within the francophone

Official Languages committee  Thank you for inviting us to appear before you today. I am here in my capacity as Director of the Santé en français au Nunavut network, but also as a representative of the Association des francophones du Nunavut. It is in the latter capacity that I making the presentation, becaus