Official Languages committee  Research is essential and absolutely necessary. It is a major aspect. It is impossible for communities to define the progress, the advances or the challenges that remain if there is no research or evidence with which to work. To give you an example, after the census Statistics C

Official Languages committee  I would like to talk mainly about the continuum. No preschoolers will learn French in places where there is a language transfer, if the parents are unemployed or do not have access to cultural events or if their health is poor. We cannot break up the continuum in saying that, thi

Official Languages committee  The social economy model we are talking about here requires various winning conditions in order to truly be successful. Each of the partners, be it in the private sector or at the municipal or community level, needs to have the capacity to enter into the partnership. Currently,

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. It is quite clear. In the implementation of the current Roadmap, there is horizontal work that is not being done. I will again use immigration because it is an excellent example of this. There is a steering committee involving federal departments, pr

Official Languages committee  There are, among others, the 43 organizations of the Leaders Forum that Heritage Canada, who is responsible for coordinating the Roadmap, could meet with over one or two days. That is an inexpensive possibility. More and more departments are having online consultations, which all

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to add that Mr. Gourde's question must also refer to true equality. In certain areas, I don't think we can say that francophone and Acadian communities have achieved equality. We're not there yet. More specifically, Mr. Godin mentioned immigrat

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely. These are the census figures.

Official Languages committee  The most recent summative evaluation states that Industry Canada's programs, as designed, do not at all meet the needs of the official language minority communities. It would be very important to refer to that evaluation in the next Roadmap. The federal tourism strategy was intr

Official Languages committee  You're asking whether there is greater cooperation, whether we are satisfied with the cooperation?

Official Languages committee  I entirely agree with you: collaboration is necessary. We definitely talked about interdepartmental and intergovernmental collaboration. There is definitely a lot to do in that regard, in particular with the Citizenship and Immigration Canada – Francophone Minority Communities St

Official Languages committee  I also think the northern reality is very specific. It's definitely very appropriate that the committee complete its study and take into consideration the current struggles between our community organizations and their territorial government in that context. Cases have gone befo

Official Languages committee  For youth and seniors?

Official Languages committee  For youth, we can very definitely talk about the Jeux de la Francophonie. The Fédération de la jeunesse canadienne-française, which has testified before this committee, also administers programs related to employment preparation and translation scholarships. Of course, all that i

Official Languages committee  The same is true regarding the immigration report. We have all come to appear. We're taking a lot of our time to support the committee's work. It is very important for us that the government give us a response so that we can determine how to orient our actions, develop our plan a

Official Languages committee  I would like to add that the Community Strategic Plan was developed and adopted following community consultations in the field in 2006. A steering committee travelled across the country consulting the communities and identifying those issues, the development priorities. It includ