Thank you.
I briefly referred to the importance of including language issues in the investigations conducted by Statistics Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada on the workforce and other topics. The databases need to be brought together so that we have access to information. At the moment, there is no way to access the information, which makes it impossible to understand the full picture of the economic reality of our communities. Right now, we cannot even define what a francophone company is.
The Ministerial Conference on the Canadian Francophonie, which includes the federal, provincial and territorial governments, organized a forum on economic development in 2012. One of the main issues defined was the importance of research and of including linguistic clauses in federal-provincial-territorial agreements.