Official Languages committee  Your question is important. Despite the fact that the Canadian census includes seven questions pertaining to language—Canada is the only country in the world to ask such questions in a census—an inquiry on the vitality of minority groups allows us to delve into this entirely new

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. When we try to understand trends in language groups in demographics, we take a number of factors into account. You mentioned the birth rate or what is known as the fertility rate. Francophones are not necessarily having fewer children than anglophon

Official Languages committee  From the results we have obtained, from the survey and other sources, we feel that if parents choose to send their children to French-language child care centres, where there is a significant French presence, this has a direct impact on whether the children go to French schools l

Official Languages committee  It would be easy for me to summarize. When we look at these things, there seems to be somewhat of a disconnect between individuals' perceptions and their behaviour in their daily lives. On the one hand, they identify with both linguistic groups, and on the other hand, they beli

Official Languages committee  As I was saying this is a major survey. It's the first time that such a survey has been undertaken by Statistics Canada. The objective was to cover a lot of ground, meaning to go beyond what we can get from a census. That is why this survey contains information on early childhood

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, committee members. I want to thank you for inviting me to appear before you. In my presentation, I will give an overview of the evolving linguistic portrait in Canada. My presentation is based on statistics taken from various censuse

Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  Yes, of course. We could distribute it. I just wanted to make it easier to understand the first few slides.

Official Languages committee  There are actually two topics: the census and the survey. Do you want to ask questions between the two presentations, or wait until I have completed both?

Official Languages committee  So, as I was saying, slide 2 shows that the use of languages other than English or French most often at home is less frequent than their proportion as mother tongue. This is due to the fact that allophones use one of the two official languages at home; these are essentially cases