Citizenship and Immigration committee   or 600 students, there might be only four or five “old stock” Quebec youngsters. I noted a little earlier that we have received many people, originally from some 117 countries.

Gasoline Prices   of extreme importance. With the approach of winter we will be seeing the consequences of this sharp and sudden spike in gas prices, much of this taking place with old stock. After hurricane Katrina we saw a rapid spike upward that has meant consequences, particularly for low income

Citizenship and Immigration committee   we know one another, that doesn't really mean a whole lot. It's important for new Canadians to get to know old-stock Canadians and vice versa. It's important for new Canadians from different countries and regions of origin and different faith groups to get to know each other. I

Official Languages committee   of the non-francophones in question is not an old-stock culture, as it is called. That is what I want you to understand. I do not want to be hard on you, but I want to understand. Earlier, you mentioned something that caught my attention. When answering a question and when making your

An Act to Authorize the Minister of Finance to Make Certain Payments   up a lot of old stock housing in our communities for young families to come in and provide very good, secure opportunities for our seniors. If we were to do that, we would have raised the bar quite considerably. Regarding foreign aid, sometimes people from my community ask, why

Subcommittee on the Automotive Industry in Canada committee   to be less. I would argue that some of the slippage of sales we're seeing in Canada is also a result of 300,000 manufacturing jobs having disappeared over five years, which is significant, by all measures, for those who want to purchase a vehicle and change over old stock. With regard

Canadian Heritage committee   to Quebec in order to put Quebec's francophones into a minority position. Mr. Bourgeois said: "That level of immigration for Quebec is worrisome". He continues by stating that Quebeckers lost the 1995 referendum because of the weak demographic weight of old-stock Quebeckers. Mr. Chair

Official Languages committee   representatives of the ethno-cultural minorities. Those four representatives are elected by members of those communities. The old stock community thus has nothing to say about the election of those four members; it is the members of those communities who elect them. So that is a general

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For eight or 10 months, there is indeed a turnover of foreign seasonal workers. They mainly come to work in the agricultural sector. You're right. However, and this is also true for old stock Quebec workers, regional agreements are reached with processing businesses which must

Official Languages committee  —people like me, who precisely consider themselves francophones. I will wrap up quickly. Old stock francophones, born here, leave the island. Others, like me, arrive there very young, learn French, but that doesn't compensate for the francophones who leave, because I'm

Official Languages committee  The term “francophone”... In Saskatchewan, with the inclusion commission, there are 50,000 of us, but that includes all those who speak French. According to Statistics Canada, about 17,000 people identified themselves as being old-stock francophones. The rest are people who

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. Saskatchewan is land of innovation. You absolutely have to be in a creative frame of mind to find ways to provide service to these communities. It's not for nothing that we saw things like the inclusion commission, which in a way breaks the paradigm of old-stock

Public Safety committee  The coalition that was founded following my arrest, by my parents and activists in Montreal who are part of the Muslim, old-stock Quebecker, Jewish and other communities, is called the Justice Coalition for Adil Charkaoui. What I am seeking most is justice. I cannot adequately

Budget Implementation Act, 2007   of seniors who I see every day in rural Nova Scotia who are suffering and having a hard time and there is nothing in the budget for them. The budget increases taxes for them by 0.5% but they have received no assistance. I am talking about single seniors. If a senior couple live in old

Official Languages committee  Yes. First, at Hôpital général Saint-Boniface, where there is a language bank, they do simultaneous translation in some 60 languages in one year. That's somewhat a reflection of the nature of Winnipeg. However, we note that, with heightened immigration, a lot of old stock