Official Languages committee  Earlier Mr. Léger talked about Industry Canada. So there are areas and sectors of intervention that are not represented enough. The Roadmap's weakness is in reinforcing the network's capabilities, which is also its objective.

Official Languages committee  We talked about consultation. I would say reinforce capacity for better data collection.

Official Languages committee  We have a vision in the Community Strategic Plan. I can quote that vision from memory. The vision is that all citizens who choose to live in French and to speak French, whether permanently or from time to time, have the capacity and environment to do so.

Official Languages committee  Anywhere. I'm thinking of the 4,000 francophone students in British Columbia's French-language schools and of the 45,000 students in the immersion schools.

Official Languages committee  Yes. We have to expand this area of exchange and respect.

Official Languages committee  I don't think the important thing is to add departments. I think we first have to take the Community Strategic Plan with the issues and investment priorities that are identified. We have to ask ourselves what departments are relevant to the plan, with the overall development pla

Official Languages committee  In fact, there are various ways. The Roadmap targets and performance indicators, in most cases, were not identified in collaboration with the communities. In many cases, we were not consulted for the purpose of setting those targets. So we realized that they do not correspond at

Official Languages committee  I would like to raise one point that I consider quite important. In a number of studies that are currently being done by the departments, the language issue is not included. They're trying to define the francophone economic space by working at Statistics Canada, Industry Canada,

Official Languages committee  That's exactly what we were told. We put the question directly to the representative of the Department of Human Resources who was present, and we of course intend to contact the department on this matter.

Official Languages committee  We will definitely send a certified copy of our letter to the Commissioner of Official Languages.

Official Languages committee  This week, the FCFA and a few member organizations spent a day with the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development discussing transfers to the provinces and language clauses. The answer we received from the department is that, in fact, the memorandum of understanding be

Official Languages committee  I would like to add something to what Ms. Kenny said. When we see the current investments, we see that the Roadmap has to be renewed in certain cases, for example, to make Termium accessible to the public. When we appeared before the Standing Committee on Finance, we asked that t

Official Languages committee  In fact, the first thing, as we saw in the parliamentary immigration committee, is that we mainly handle anglophone immigration to Canada. It's important that a national immigration policy be put in place in the francophone and Acadian communities. That's the first element. Among

Official Languages committee  Yes, on immigration.

Official Languages committee  That's correct.