Trends come and go quickly and young people are using symbols all over the world. Why? Because it is their way of communicating with each other.
I am extremely proud of two things at the bureau.
First, TERMIUM Plus is now available worldwide as an app. We find it very exciting to see that a number of Canadians, as well as schools, are using TERMIUM Plus each month. It is great. It is free and it is available in real time.
Second, the Language Portal of Canada. It contains millions of terms, games and documents. We are working closely with the provinces and territories to share documents and to encourage young people to use English and French in a more modern, user-friendly way.
We're going to be starting some work on the language portal to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary, working with schools, targeting schools to encourage young people to give us their desires in terms of how they want to see language, and allowing us to work with them to make sure that this language portal is robust for the future.