Official Languages committee  I don't have that information, but I know that, among the important factors, there is the issue of integration in job search efforts. There is integration through community centres, for example, through activities organized by francophones to which these immigrants contribute. So

Official Languages committee  Learning English and French is clearly fundamentally important for the integration of immigrants in regions outside Quebec. Learning English is clearly so for obvious reasons.

Official Languages committee  In fact, we always try to see whether this affects health services. We always think about the issue of active offer; we often think about awareness, so that immigrants who come and settle are well informed about the means available to enable them to enter the labour market and th

Official Languages committee  In studying the censuses from 1991 to 2006, the 2006 Census in particular, we found that French-speaking immigrants are more educated than other immigrants, based on the number of university degrees. In addition, the main field of study or training will have a very high impact on

Official Languages committee  On the whole, interprovincial migration is a relatively limited phenomenon, if you consider the francophone population in general. Of course, as we've seen from one census to the next or from one intercensal period to the next, there can be significant population movements, both

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your questions. In the past, we used to use the mother tongue criterion. One of the reasons was that prior to 1971 the mother tongue question was the only question asked, along with the knowledge of official languages question, in the census. Following the recomme

Official Languages committee  Your question is very relevant. The thing is that usually what the Treasury Board does is, and the approach that was adopted in the early 1990s was, because we couldn't really attribute French or English to a fair number of immigrants outside Quebec, to split them into two groups

Official Languages committee  That's the 2006 Census. We don't check every year, but, in 2006, we calculated the percentage of immigrants for whom French was the first official language spoken, and we also determined that it was 12% of them. In overall terms, we're talking about some 3,000 persons. If we add

Official Languages committee  Exactly, and that's mainly in Ottawa and Toronto.

Official Languages committee  —outside Quebec. Ontario has nearly 500,000. Given the fact that there are nevertheless a lot of francophones in New Brunswick and that they are essentially concentrated in the north, that sometimes becomes a less crucial issue. In all cases, it's less the case than in Ontario, f

Official Languages committee  The fact that Toronto was one of those cities is not very surprising, given that it already takes in most immigrants in general. Immigrants who speak English and French, like all other immigrants, try to settle in Toronto. As for Ottawa, the fact that it is the federal capital an

Official Languages committee  The Citizenship and Immigration Canada people would be in a better position than I am to answer that question.

Official Languages committee  No, we don't have any information on that.

Official Languages committee  With regard to Toronto, I must point out that, outside Canada, when people think of a city in Canada, they don't necessarily think of Moncton. That's unfortunate, because I like Moncton a lot.

Official Languages committee  We're going to focus—