Evidence of meeting #23 for Official Languages in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was tests.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
The clerk will arrange that.
Is that okay with everyone?
All right.
Since there is nothing else, we will not move on to the list of witnesses for the study.
Mrs. Boucher, do you want to speak to that?
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
That is what we discussed yesterday. It is specifically about francophone immigration...
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Yesterday, we said that was what we wanted.
Liberal
Dan Vandal Liberal Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, MB
On the other hand, we are going to have other witnesses come to talk about the roadmap, is that right?
Conservative
Liberal
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Mr. Samson, Mr. Arseneault and I talked about a lot of subjects because all three of us were a little lost. We said there had to be a structure. That is really necessary. We kind of have the feeling that everything is going back and forth and we repeat ourselves every time, the same things. There comes a time when we have to move forward. We do not have a lot of time to study immigration. There is a deadline to be met in the case of the roadmap. Last time, we talked about 22 hours in total. I checked in my documents. If we spend 10 hours on immigration, we will have 12 hours left for the roadmap.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
Is that 22 hours on top of the hours we need for writing the report, in particular?
Is it 22 hours with witnesses?
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Yes. We had already got to a total of 22 hours and you asked us to condense it so that 10 hours would be allocated to immigration and 12 hours to the roadmap.
At some point, the present government will let us know what approach it is going to take on this. That will help us arrange ourselves in terms of whom we invite.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Denis Paradis
On the sheet that was distributed to us, it talks about 10 hours for immigration.
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
We are hearing from representatives of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada today, and on Thursday from the Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones and the RDEE.
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
How many hours do we have in total to cover the roadmap?
Conservative
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
We have 22 hours. That is what we said last week.
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
I just wanted to confirm. In that case, in practical terms, we have to do our homework for Thursday. We can perhaps decide on candidates for addressing the roadmap.
Conservative
Liberal
Darrell Samson Liberal Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook, NS
The people who will talk about the roadmap at that time will not be coming back before our committee.
Conservative
Liberal
