Official Languages committee  At Statistics Canada, absolutely. Our action plan and our report on the results of the implementation of section 41, which is on the Statistics Canada website, outline numerous actions and positive measures that we have implemented precisely to assist official language minoritie

Official Languages committee  My answer will be brief. As I mentioned, that survey was conducted through a partnership involving 10 federal government departments and agencies. As you mentioned, it was done in the context of the first action plan. That survey cost $7.5 million. For the moment, no interest has

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Jean-Pierre Corbeil. I am responsible for the Language Statistics Section, and I am here with my colleague, François Nault, who is director of the Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division. I want to thank the members of the committee for inviti

Official Languages committee  Some thinking is currently being done at Statistics Canada, but, as you know, cost recovery is often an issue in surveys at Statistics Canada. One survey is very important at Statistics Canada, and that's the General Social Survey. Every year, we address a variety of themes such

Official Languages committee  I don't have the number in mind, but I can tell you that, since the 2006 Census, we have been asking where people earned their highest degree. So we can determine where they were five years earlier. However, the big challenge for the census is emigration, which we can't get a han

Official Languages committee  In the 2006 or 2011 Census, we are able to ask where they earned their highest degree. Some say it was in Canada. Then we ask them how long they have been in Canada, and they answer three years, for example. That at least enables us to obtain information indirectly on the number

Official Languages committee  What do you mean?

Official Languages committee  That would be a bit difficult in the context of the census, but it would be possible as part of a survey. That type of question was asked during the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada.

Official Languages committee  Projections have been done for visible minorities. It is complicated to project in time—to 2031—what the francophone population in Canada will be relative to the anglophone population. A lot of assumptions have to be established because we have to try to take into account migrati

Official Languages committee  All right, that's fine. Perhaps I can briefly answer your question on population projections. I don't know whether that interests you.

Official Languages committee  I'm going to answer you by going back to what Mr. Nadeau and Mr. Godin said. You have to be aware that this can also be a doubled-edged sword. If we ask people whether they want French-language services and a not negligible number of francophones answer that it's not particularly

Official Languages committee  I can even give it to you right away, if you wish.

Official Languages committee  I'm going to answer your first questions quickly. Even by redistributing the English-French category, we're talking about approximately 5 million English-language immigrants outside Quebec; there are about 100,000 French-language immigrants. That gives us have an idea of the numb

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. I would say it's quite complex. We know that, if we adopt this concept of immigrant integration, it's of course linguistic, cultural, economic and social integration. As we mentioned, language is only one of the factors of that integration, of course.

Official Languages committee  There would definitely be a way to gather that type of information.