Official Languages committee  There is an important consideration, namely, the active offer of services in French. You have no doubt been to places where there is a little sign that says: English-French. Your instinctive reaction is to ask the young lady behind the counter if you can be served in French or if

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. I would say we have to make a distinction. You talked about immigrants...

Official Languages committee  That is true. When we spoke of immigration a little earlier, we mentioned the Longitudinal survey of immigrants to Canada. The Postcensus survey on the vitality of official language minorities also includes francophones who left Quebec...

Official Languages committee  Yes. All of the francophones living outside Quebec whose mother tongue is French, as well as those whose first spoken language is French—often allophone immigrants—are included in the sample. Questions are asked about migration, in other words, where were these people living fi

Official Languages committee  Look, perhaps in New Brunswick...

Official Languages committee  As I was saying, it is surely...

Official Languages committee  New Brunswick is a unique case, as its population is one-third francophone, and francophones are concentrated in certain areas. Moreover, the reality is totally different from the reality in certain regions of Ontario and in most other provinces outside Ontario and New Brunswick.

Official Languages committee  According to the contacts and the meetings that we have had with specialists and stakeholders in the field, we do not know to what extent people are calling for services in French. If we were to decide to set up programs and to allocate funds to provide services in French, we nee

Official Languages committee  That is why we conduct the study on vitality. We want to know if it is important for these people to obtain services in French.

Official Languages committee  In the questionnaire, we ask why it is important for the respondent to obtain or not obtain services in French, or why he has not sought to obtain services in French. If this person did not try, it is perhaps because the service was not offered or because the person was reluctant

Official Languages committee  A copy was sent that we can circulate. It is a copy of the health module.

Official Languages committee  I also sent a version of the description of the Post-census Survey on the Vitality of Official Language Minorities, with a description of each module. If you are interested, we can circulate it.

Official Languages committee  I would say that health is the one area in which we have been able to obtain the most reliable estimates. The statistics cover the widest range of linguistic subpopulations in Canada. The same applies to the post-census survey.

Official Languages committee  As I was saying earlier, there are two major concerns for those working in the health care sector: offer of services and access to health care, as well as training of medical doctors. I know that the minority vitality survey, given the size of its sampling will allow us to obtain

Official Languages committee  We succeeded in obtaining a considerable sample in Quebec, not only for Quebec anglophones by mother tongue, but also for allophone immigrants who turn towards English. Since the concurrence between English and French is an important issue in Quebec, we significantly oversampled