Official Languages committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Distinguished members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages, distinguished guests and colleagues, good afternoon. By way of introduction, I would like to point out that, in my area of research, namely language policy, e

Official Languages committee  I'm going to piggyback on what Ms. Chouinard just said. The consultations that have been held to date and the reports that have been published are very important. What we have right now is a new political situation. When the consultations began a few years ago, the place of Fren

Official Languages committee  Thanks for your question, Mr. Beaulieu. You're right. This opportunity that all Canadians, anglophones in particular, have to become bilingual must absolutely be maintained in Canadian society, thanks in part to the federal government. The linguistic security that francophones e

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. It's an important question. When I said we had to give the act "some teeth", I was thinking of one of your former colleagues, someone I very much liked, Senator Jean-Robert Gauthier. That's what he always said. In 2005, when he introduced his reform

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. To answer your first question, I've never questioned the type of language planning behind the official languages model in Canada. The issue in the present instance, which is a crisis management situation, is governance. In all circumstances, we have the

Official Languages committee  It's—

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for your remarks. There's a whole body of international research on the impact of failure to consider minority languages in emergency situations. You may think that switching to a single language is more efficient, but the consequences show it's not necessari

Official Languages committee  Thank you asking that important and relevant question, Mr. Beaulieu. You wondered whether the language planning model used had resulted in failures, from an official languages perspective, in managing the pandemic. In fact, it's more the governance model. Whether under a territo

Official Languages committee  Thank you Mr. Chair. I hope everyone can hear me.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, honourable members, for having invited me to speak to you in your deliberations. I will be speaking to you today in tandem with my colleague Mr. Larocque, about a study…

Official Languages committee  Should I continue?

Official Languages committee  It's French. Is it better now?

Official Languages committee  Okay.

Official Languages committee  I was saying that my presentation will be given in tandem with my colleague, Mr. François Larocque. You have just heard two presentations that included research results. Today, we are going to describe a research project that complements these, but that addresses the question of