Official Languages committee  Just very quickly, I think you need to speak to some more people, not just to the three of us who are here. If you talk to francophone associations from Alberta and Saskatchewan, you'll hear that their definition of community includes diversity and that they want that immigration

Official Languages committee  I would like to add one important point to the debate. I come back to the initial question: what should be done about Francophone immigrants? Where are we going to try and send them to settle? This dilemma also affects Quebec. Are we going to try to send them to the regions of Qu

Official Languages committee  I think she's asking which university-degree language programs are offered in English universities.

Official Languages committee  If I understand correctly, it's whether to continue to support post-secondary education in minority languages, such as at UBC, that there be French teacher training programs. If you're looking at St. Boniface or places like that, yes, of course. The more places where you can...la

Official Languages committee  What do you do when someone gives two answers? Do you attribute half to Francophones and the other half to Anglophones? If you say that you have two mother tongues, you do not exist.

Official Languages committee  The question is asked, but the answers are not processed accordingly. Furthermore, often the majority of questions used in the surveys that have been done up until recently—that is changing now; the indicators are changing—have been: what language is most often used at work? What

Official Languages committee  Who is that addressed to?

Official Languages committee  Statistics Canada has data which, in my opinion, receive minimal processing and have not been adequately analyzed. Statistics Canada provides a great deal of information and that information is expensive to process. Also, there needs to be a desire to understand the complexity.

Official Languages committee  Yes, and that cannot be prevented. Market forces are--

Official Languages committee  You are going directly to the source.

Official Languages committee  I do think, though, that some of the statistics that are forever being cited in the media to alarm people have been “flattened”. I am not afraid to say that. They present an extremely unnuanced picture of reality.

Official Languages committee  I do not disagree. My own children are a good example. I am the fourth bilingual generation in the family of my father, who was a Quebecker whose parents were from Quebec and Acadia. I am raising my own children to be trilingual. I am married to an immigrant—in actual fact, divor

Official Languages committee  With respect to numbers, if you look at the Quebec government's numbers, you will see that there are significant nuances with respect to linguistic behaviour among immigrants, Francophones and Anglophones. Statistically, indicators with supporting numbers show that the linguistic

Official Languages committee  I have a psychologist friend who came over to my house one day. Like many of my Francophone friends, he has trouble imagining that there can be such a creature as a “Franglophone”—in other words, someone who has the sense of belonging to two different systems and having two diffe

Official Languages committee  First, I think what I need to address here is fear for French, fear for the vitality of French and the French fact in Canada, the French fact; a Francophone society in Quebec. There are real fears, and they're built on a history. I think we can't undermine those fears. There ar