Official Languages committee  Our latest annual report, which covered the 2010-11 period, stated that the number of young people studying French as a second language was 1.7 million and that about 700,000 Quebec francophones were studying English as a second language.

Official Languages committee  There is a general report prepared by the Council of Ministers of Education Canada. It deals exclusively with the current program and outlines the achievements, progress and the main measures put forward. That report follows the same schedule as us. The report is now published for the first two...

Official Languages committee  There is an agreement, two envelopes and six outcome domains per envelope. For each of the six outcome domains, the provinces present initiatives that they want to take, indicators and targets. Of all our agreements, 700 initiatives come from the provinces. There are about 250 indicators and therefore targets as well.

Official Languages committee  The 53% rate is not new. You heard what Mr. Jean-Pierre Corbeil said last week. He talked about the 53% and the 43% or 44%. The 53% includes the students from Quebec. Mr. Corbeil said that the 44% represents the people outside Quebec. That explains the difference. We have been over the 50% mark for students who take French or English as a second language for some years now.