Official Languages committee  However, we still have to recognize that illiteracy is nevertheless unacceptable.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much. First, I'd like to clarify one point concerning functional illiteracy. Here I have statistics that were published by Statistics Canada following the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey. In Quebec, 43% of Anglophones of that province scored below Level 3 in prose literacy, compared to 55% of Francophones in Quebec.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen members of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, we are obviously very pleased to accept the invitation to come and talk about the vitality of the official language minority communities. Today I have with me a document entitled Le financement des universités et la vitalité linguistique des communautés de langue officielle au Canada, which was written by Frédéric Lacroix and Patrick Sabourin.