Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship  Mr. Speaker, their discussions are going so well that the Government of Quebec is thinking of holding a referendum on immigration. The truth is that Quebec is so fed up with having the government laugh in its face that it is thinking of reaching out to the people. Considering

Finance committee   better than we otherwise might. We like having them as a trading partner, but they're also competitors. They compete with us for talent. A recent study out of Statistics Canada showed how difficult a time Canada has in retaining talented immigrants. One place they naturally tend

Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act   it is the economy, immigration, getting a passport or something as simple as sticking a sapling in the ground, it just cannot get the job done. If we are going to talk about the environment failures, we need look no further than the carbon tax. The Liberal, NDP, and now the Bloc, carbon tax

Finance committee  . There is no magic bullet. This is not a matter of setting up a fund or cutting one tax to solve productivity. Part of the challenge relates to the labour force. Everyone knows about the rate of immigration in the case of temporary migrants and in the case of those migrants who work at low wages

Official Languages committee   from their sector. Scholarship programs would be a good way to encourage students to study in French. There could also be scholarships for francophone immigrants settling in the region. Immigrants have the choice to become part of the anglophone network or the francophone community

Official Languages committee  , for instance. You have to stop holding back. We saw that with what happened at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. People said universities were under provincial jurisdiction, and we asked the minister to set the institutions apart.

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Samson. I have to leave the meeting soon, because I’m going to the House of Commons to table a committee report that deals specifically with francophone immigration. The committee’s first vice-chair will replace me during my absence. I now give the floor

Official Languages committee  I have two minutes left. Mr. Arsenault, you said that you had been in touch with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, and that so far, IRCC has been providing money for training anglophones. But it hasn't been giving you any for francophones. Is that right?

Official Languages committee  That's right. Collège nordique francophone has to tell francophone immigrants who arrive that they have to take language training in English in order to pass our immigration tests, which are not available in French. We feel terrible every time it happens.

Official Languages committee   in the Northwest Territories at the post-secondary level. The funding comes mainly through two programs: support funding for post-secondary studies and bilateral agreements for minority-language education. We also receive funding from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, or IRCC

Official Languages committee  Mr. Normand, the last time you testified before the committee, you explained how the new Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, or IRCC, rules in force since January concerning international students might hurt francophone universities and francophone communities. You

Official Languages committee  Mr. Normand, I'd like to hear your opinion based on the fact that your institutions are situated at one end of the education continuum. We know there are two clienteles: students who are in Canada's present system and immigrant students. Do you think that enough Canadians

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Normand. I've unfortunately run out of time. I apologize to Mr. Cormier. I would have liked to ask him similar questions about immigration, but I'm going to yield to my colleagues.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. I recognize this fact, and I've seen a lot of newspaper articles about it. The figures tend to show it. I'll let my colleagues at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada answer that question. That said, we note that many Quebec educational institutions, especially

Government Operations committee   labour. I know that we've increased economic immigration categories and that a significant amount of work has been done there, and then there's an impact from the investment made in credential recognition. In terms of goods getting to service and crossing provincial lines