Welcome to the Standing Committee on Official Languages.
Today is Tuesday, March 10, 2015, and this is our 40th meeting.
We are here pursuant to Standing Order 108 for a study of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration's commitment to promoting Canada's linguistic duality and the development of official language minority communities.
Today, we are hearing from Ms. d'Entremont, Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick. We are also hearing from Mrs. Rioux, Director General of the Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse. Finally, we also have with us Ms. Kamariza, who is a coordinator at the Réseau en immigration francophone de l'Alberta.
Welcome, everyone.
Before we begin, I just have a couple of points of information.
We have received the main estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016. If the committee wishes, we can ask the Commissioner of Official Languages to appear before us to answer questions on expenditures.
If it's the wish of the committee, I can organize to have the commissioner appear in front of us to review the estimates sometime in May before these need to be reported back to the House, so that we as a committee can vote on the estimates.
Is it the wish of the committee that I proceed in that fashion?
Okay. I'll organize that for some time in May.
Mrs. Rioux has a flight at 5:30 p.m.