Official Languages committee  You have to bear in mind that New Brunswick has approximately 235,000 francophones—

Official Languages committee  All right, you're a kind man.

Official Languages committee  Of course, everything depends on the geographic reference you use. At the provincial level, results may be different from those you'll get if you use a more regional scale. For example, in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, a major effort has been made to welcome and integrate French-lang

Official Languages committee  Your question is obviously very relevant. We know that the regionalization of immigration has been a major issue for a number of decades. Quebec in particular has tried on a number of occasions to regionalize immigration over the past 30 years, with variable and mixed results. W

Official Languages committee  I'll answer you in a somewhat simplistic way, even though your question isn't simplistic at all. We try to determine whether our community is francophone or not and where it is located. People often decide to immigrate for employment-related reasons, without there necessarily bei

Official Languages committee  I would like to thank you for inviting Statistics Canada to appear before you. I am here today with René Houle, Senior Analyst in the Language Statistics Section and co-author of the study "Statistical Portrait of the French-Speaking Immigrant Population Outside Quebec (1991 to 2

Official Languages committee  There is no problem, however the email is full of spelling mistakes. That said, the document released by Statistics Canada on the 4thof last December contains a box that refers to this email — without actually including it — and this could have had an influence. Obviously we cann

Official Languages committee  Many people consider immigration.

Official Languages committee  If you had had the opportunity to participate in some discussions within certain groups in Alberta or in Manitoba, where immigrants have become integrated in the francophone community, you would have seen a rather exceptional level of vitality. There are immigrants that settle in

Official Languages committee  In Quebec, this is a significant concern amongst the anglophones in these communities. The communities are emptying out and that applies not only to anglophones but also to all rural communities.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. We've observed that the increase in the proportion of people who report themselves as being bilingual has increased, at least up until 2001. As for anglophones in Quebec, I mentioned the proportion of those who report being able to speak two language

Official Languages committee  Throughout Canada, and even francophones in Quebec. There is a slight decrease. The only explanation we have is that an e-mail circulated one month prior to the census that urged or asked francophones not to report themselves as bilingual because they were afraid they would not r

Official Languages committee  As I've said, there is an increase in the level of bilingualism for non-francophones in general. It means not only those who have English as a mother tongue but also those who have another language, a third language, or allophones. It's an increase in the proportion of bilinguali

Official Languages committee  In Quebec.

Official Languages committee  Thank you. In the survey of the vitality of official languages communities, we observed that outside Quebec, 88% of parents whose mother tongue was French chose to send their children to French schools. We noted that in cases where one of the parents' mother tongue was French the