Official Languages committee  While I cannot speak specifically about the ins and outs of educational funding, what I can say is that we have noticed, since 2017, a very heartening positive situation with the Quebec government, with the creation of a new body called the Secretariat for relations with English-

Official Languages committee  I'm sorry; there was background noise. There was an emergency announcement here at Concordia. You asked how the act could become better known, or how that would improve the situation.

Official Languages committee  I wanted to emphasize that, in the act not being well known, as far as I understand it, it means that when we talk about support for official language minority communities—for instance, support for our partners at Quebec Community Groups Network, and the many partner groups, incl

Official Languages committee  First of all I think it's important to recognize that, when we talk about official language minority communities in Quebec, it's an inclusive definition. I'll get a little technical. It includes what Statistics Canada calls those people whose first official language spoken was En

Official Languages committee  Yes. I did not think to bring a definition with me. Dr. Richard Bourhis is a scholar from UQAM, l'Université du Québec à Montréal, who is one of our researcher-members. He was instrumental in creating the definition of “community vitality” some years ago. He would be interested,

Official Languages committee  Just to clarify, when I mentioned the charter, I was referring to the Charter of the French Language. I can only reiterate that this law is very important, and that my colleagues and I support the law's main lines. In respect of support for official language minority communitie

Official Languages committee  Hello Mr. Paradis, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Choquette and committee members. The Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network, QUESCREN, was founded in 2008 as a joint initiative of Concordia University, the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities and Canadian He

Official Languages committee  Hello. My opening remarks are about eight minutes, so ideally I would be able to give them all at once.

Official Languages committee  From noon until 1 p.m.?

Official Languages committee  Yes, I am.

Official Languages committee  I work closely with a number of researchers from Bishop's University, specifically with those in the Eastern Townships Resource Centre. They are doing a lot of research into topics specific to the Eastern Townships. I could mention a Townshippers' Association project. That is a c

Official Languages committee  I think the reply was ably handled by Jack Jedwab, who is one of the people I've worked with on several projects. But I would simply like to add that it unfortunately gave what I would call an impression that I think statistics show otherwise, which is that the English-speaking p

Official Languages committee  We've mentioned priorities that have been set by community groups. I would like to underline that one of our longstanding partners—the Quebec Community Groups Network—has recently completed a priority-setting exercise that brought together many, many stakeholders, including QUESC

Official Languages committee  Unfortunately, there is at this point no coordination. For the information of the committee, several years ago there was a special program to support research on official language minority communities, which no longer exists.

Official Languages committee  It is a shame. It would be very welcome, to answer Monsieur Gourde's question too, to see a renewal of that program, which, according to what I've heard, produced some interesting results.