We have one.
Evidence of meeting #16 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was manitoba.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #16 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was manitoba.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Policy and Program Analyst, Immigration Division, Department of Labour and Immigration, Government of Manitoba
We have one.
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NDP
Claude Gravelle NDP Nickel Belt, ON
So that means $34,000 for the entire province. It is not very much.
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Policy and Program Analyst, Immigration Division, Department of Labour and Immigration, Government of Manitoba
It's only at the university level. There are also other programs in primary and secondary schools.
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Policy and Program Analyst, Immigration Division, Department of Labour and Immigration, Government of Manitoba
At the secondary and primary levels, they are mostly English programs.
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Policy and Program Analyst, Immigration Division, Department of Labour and Immigration, Government of Manitoba
The francophones in schools don't have any problem learning French, and they are also going to learn English. It's fascinating. Their French doesn't really need a whole lot of improvement.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you very much, Mr. Gravelle.
We've already reached the third round, and we are going to begin with Mr. Bélanger.
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Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Merci.
Madam Mills, I want to explore this 9% versus 4%. When I asked if I was correct in believing that your objective for the francophone portion of immigration was 9%, you said no, it was 4%. Where I got that 9% was from a report that Madame Désy wrote, in which she said that
today—this is a document you signed, Madam—francophone immigration constitutes almost 9% of immigration in Nova Scotia.
That document was quoted in our paper.
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Nova Scotia Nominee Program Officer, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
Yes, that's true, but it is not an objective, not a target.
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Nova Scotia Nominee Program Officer, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
There aren't any in Nova Scotia as regards a percentage.
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Nova Scotia Nominee Program Officer, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
It's something we have discussed earlier. Ms. Mills could perhaps address that again.
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Liberal
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Executive Director, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
No. At this point, we do not. We're still in the infancy of our immigration strategy overall. We are building our immigration strategy and building capacity within Nova Scotia.
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Executive Director, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
In the same way, we are building our partnerships with the francophone communities.
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Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
But if you're building a strategy, and therefore the infrastructure to make sure it materializes, do you not build such a strategy on objectives? Do you have overall objectives?
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Executive Director, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
We will have a new immigration strategy with overall objectives, yes.
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Liberal
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Executive Director, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
The strategy is not yet released, and I don't want to pre-empt our minister,who will soon be releasing that strategy.
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Executive Director, Office of Immigration, Government of Nova Scotia
Yes.
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Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Within those objectives, will there be a percentage objective for the francophone element of immigration?