Human Resources committee  I'm not sure I understand your question.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Llibraries are still central to the transmission of knowledge. You can't disregard that fact. If each institution has a 100,000-book library, it's because that's a necessity. We're talking about the translation of teaching material and books into French, but we also have to talk

Human Resources committee  As we said earlier, this is a national problem that's playing out against an educational backdrop. It's very important to understand this subtle distinction. This concerns official languages, employability, the standard of living of French-speaking Canadians, immigration and the

Human Resources committee  That would be normal. I don't live in India. I don't pay my taxes in that country either. In India, they may have serious problems of this kind, but we live here, and we have rights. Canada is founded on equality between English- and French-speaking Canadians. We've already chose

Human Resources committee  That's correct.

Human Resources committee  You'll also find a sample of studies on the number of books and so on.

Human Resources committee  The documents you'll be receiving — we only have them in French here — describe studies and library inventories. Officially, 75% of books are in English. Seventy-five percent of the books of university libraries are in English. If you exclude obsolete books, you get approximately

Human Resources committee  It's the libraries, but if you take courses in Roman history, political science or medicine, you work with English books. Currently, 92% of medical books are English. This situation results in a lot of students dropping out. In biology, 50% of students drop out of their courses.

Human Resources committee  Good morning. My name is Jean-Marc Beausoleil, and I work for the Fondation de la langue française pour l'innovation sociale et scientifique. Before starting my presentation, I'd like to mention two things. First of all, our organization would like to thank Ms. Denise Savoie for