Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for inviting the National Research Council to appear before the committee today. My colleague, Charles-Antoine Gauthier, and I are pleased to provide you with a report on NRC's initiative related to the Roadmap for Canada's Linguistic Duality. With your perm

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. We have a first draft evaluation. I can say that it is now being considered by the executives at NRC. We're very pleased with the outcomes we're seeing, and there are a number of recommendations that we'll be bringing forward as well.

Official Languages committee  That's a good question. It is not on the agenda for our next executive meeting, but I expect it will be on the agenda for the following meeting, which will be before the end of the fiscal year.

Official Languages committee  Do you mean the centre or the language technologies group that we created?

Official Languages committee  The support role in the circumstances consists in creating a research group whose purpose is to develop new language technologies. In that context, we build partnerships and we've succeeded in developing new technologies and transferring them to our partners who are now using th

Official Languages committee  Thank you. That's a very general question. If you don't mind, I'll just switch to English so I can make sure that I capture all the nuances of what I'd like to share. In general, NRC has a role to support—

Official Languages committee  At NRC, one of our roles, of course, is to support innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises, so we have a number of mechanisms to do that. One of them is our industrial research assistance program, which allows companies to come to NRC to provide a business case for an in

Official Languages committee  That's a good question. Thank you. English is the main international language of science. We have a lot of associates, particularly in astronomy, and we provide a database. to provide access to astronomical information. That's actually how we proceeded in these areas. The ques

Official Languages committee  That's a good question. But I actually don't have the answer right now. That's something that I will look into and report back on, if you wish.

Official Languages committee  Could I see the paragraph you read?

Official Languages committee  It's something that I will certainly look into now that you've raised it. It is NRC's commitment to provide access in the language of choice to all of our services. It's something that I will be raising after this meeting. Thank you very much.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for that question. Of course, NRC is very focused on making sure we make investments in areas that have potential for economic growth for our companies. If we look today at the market, it is a growing market. One of the sectors of this market that's growing very rapid

Official Languages committee  I'll defer to my colleague, Charles-Antoine, for a technical explanation.

Official Languages committee  If you want to explore a little more around where even the translation technologies have potential for growth, you can think about business intelligence tools, where companies like OpenText are providing tremendous breadth to companies to explore and analyze information. The inte

Official Languages committee  In general, when we develop technologies our intent is to make it available to any Canadian firm that can make use of it. We retain ownership of the technology and we license it on a case-by-case basis to other firms. In other instances—and this is more of a general comment on