Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, thank you for appearing before the committee.
I'm a new Canadian. My mother tongues are Hungarian and Romanian.
You spoke about some recent data from Statistics Canada on Canada's linguistic make-up. You mentioned that the data show that, despite an increase in both official languages, new Canadians who had another mother tongue made up a larger part of the general population, larger than ever before.
Was there any discussion of the demographic issues during the consultations? If so, did the participants mention that immigration was a priority for the communities?