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Official Languages committee If you go up to Gaspé, or Rouyn-Noranda, or Métis-sur-Mer, you'll find small communities there, but that's not unlike the francophones in the rest of Canada. It's not to say that Montreal doesn't have challenges.
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Yes, absolutely. Our small communities are very similar to small communities in the rest of Canada where there are francophones. We have the same challenges. We have different challenges in Montreal, but there are challenges.
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee May I say something?
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Mr. Tabachnick said that youth sustain the educational sector—elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and the rest. We come at it as well from the community sector. Youth are our only anchor to sustain the vitality of our community in Quebec, so the more that youth are interested
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Precisely. What's more, Quebec may not consider it to be in its best interests to have as clear a picture as we, in the minority community, would like. The responsibility for the study, then, would really have to fall to the federal government. In some provinces, the communities
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee I am familiar with it, having worked in the federal government at the time. Are you referring to the post-census survey?
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee It's been a while. I would say that the realities of the English-speaking and French-speaking communities aren't that different. I can't say much more than that because I haven't looked at the 2006 census for quite some time. I remember that, at the time, the report was seen as s
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee That may well be appropriate.
February 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee To be fair, we have probably two other sectors that receive national funds. CEDEC would be one, and the health care...what am I trying to say?
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Community Health and Social Services from Health Canada would be the other. There are no other capable organizations to do policy work in the sectors.
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Having worked in Ontario for almost 20 years and having worked on French-language education with the ministry, I can talk about the comparison between the anglophones in Quebec and Franco-Ontarians. We have to compare a declining community with a developing one. We have to compa
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee We'll have to come back to that.
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee I think they are pointing to me. I know le par et pour. The “by and for” is very important for the communities outside Quebec. I think it goes back to your question and your remarks a few minutes ago. Le par et pour in Quebec is not the same as le par et pour elsewhere in th
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee My partner suggested I answer the first round on indexation. I'm going to give you an example, and this is probably the same for each of the provinces. Each province is allocated, in terms of Canadian Heritage, some money to work within the province. That's very important in Queb
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee May I perhaps double back now to the skew in the system that doesn't always allow us to be at the national table? I'll give you a real example. There is a Canada-provincial services agreement in each of the provinces, and each province works with their provincial folks to sit a
November 1st, 2016Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge