Official Languages committee  The child and youth protection centre in Cowansville has given us this figure. The proportion has always been high, but it's especially higher this past year because of the greater awareness of teachers, nurses, and helping professionals of the socio-economic problems in the En

Official Languages committee  An excellent question.

Official Languages committee  I just wanted to add that in the last census, two-thirds of English speakers in the Eastern Townships said they were bilingual and only one-third of the francophones said they were bilingual. So there is a certain functional bilingualism there. I think that needs to be improved a

Official Languages committee  Language training for francophone service providers in the health care system is one aspect of the action plan we're beginning to see results on. I must say that those service providers have been very eager to avail themselves of English as a second language classes, which they c

Official Languages committee  Something on the federal side?

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes, we are. Some of those groups are quite small, and not all of them receive federal funding. But what the Townshippers' Association has been doing, in collaboration with Bishop's, the Dobson-Lagassé Entrepreneurship Centre, and a number of other organizations, is mounting an i

Official Languages committee  —how to qualify for those jobs, and where to get the training for those jobs. We're in the process of evaluating the training programs available in the Eastern Townships to see if there is a good match between the job market and the available educational programs. We have the co

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Sometimes, yes, the young and the most mobile, and even the most bilingual. Now the level of bilingualism among young townshippers is proportionally twice that of young French speakers. At least that's what was reported in the last census. That portrait is changing. The level of

Official Languages committee  Okay. Maybe I'll answer that one. My name is Rachel Garber. I'm the executive director of the Townshippers' Association. Regarding the caseload of the youth protection centre in the western part of the Eastern Townships, this was discussed in some depth at a recent youth semin

Official Languages committee  I'm with him.