I will call this meeting to order.
Welcome to the 20th meeting of the Standing Committee on Science and Research.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of June 23, 2022. Members are attending in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(i) and the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, June 16, we are meeting on the study of research and scientific publication in French.
To ensure an orderly meeting, I would like to outline a few rules for the witnesses and members.
Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name. If you are on the videoconference, please click on the microphone icon to unmute yourself. Please mute your mic when you are not speaking.
For interpretation, those participating through Zoom have the choice, at the bottom of their screen, between three channels: floor, English or French. Members attending in person in the room can use their headset after selecting the channel desired.
A reminder that all comments by members and witnesses should be addressed through the chair.
For members in the room, if you wish to speak, please raise your hand. For members on Zoom, please use the “raise hand” function. The clerk and I will manage the speaking order as best we can, and we appreciate your patience and understanding in this regard.
I would now like to welcome the witnesses.
First, we have Linda Cardinal, Associate Vice-President of Research, Université de l’Ontario français, and Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon, Associate Professor of History. Both are appearing as individuals.
We also have Éric Forgues, Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities.
We will now have opening statements.
Each of our three witnesses will have five minutes. At the four and a half minute mark, I will hold up this green card. That will tell you that there are 30 seconds left. We want to be as fair as we can to all our witnesses.
With that, we will start with Professor Cardinal.
The floor is yours. Welcome.