Official Languages committee  They have been tested.

Official Languages committee  We will endeavour to make them shorter.

Official Languages committee  That's an excellent question.

Official Languages committee  Yes. We will know who the members are.

Official Languages committee  That's a great question. It will be necessary to balance public information requirements with committee business confidentiality. I can't answer yes or no. We will see as the committee's work progresses. The committee will advise the chief statistician, so that means the confiden

Official Languages committee  Yes. We receive the rest of the responses through a paper questionnaire—

Official Languages committee  —or through telephone interviews.

Official Languages committee  So it's a mixed mode of data collection.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  That's right.

Official Languages committee  That's a good question. You will know it once the information has been published in the Canada Gazette. It becomes secret once we recommend the questions to the government, to Minister Navdeep Bains. Then the cabinet approval process comes into play.

Official Languages committee  You will get the answer in spring 2020.

Official Languages committee  Those are francophones outside Quebec.

Official Languages committee  The timeframes are certainly very tight. We are conducting various tests. There are lots of qualitative tests for which we meet with communities throughout Canada. We hold what we call “discussion groups” or individual interviews. What we call “qualitative tests” are used to help