Official Languages committee  I can only reinforce what my colleagues have said. The issues and challenges we face at HRSDC are horizontal in nature. There's literally nothing we do that doesn't have the involvement of other departments and other levels of government communities. So the strength of the road m

Official Languages committee  Thanks very much for the question. I share the sentiments expressed by my two colleagues. One of the important things to remember is that our department is still obligated under the Official Languages Act. The part I'm most familiar with is part VII, which is the advancement of

Official Languages committee  We're actually going to use the work of this committee as an important input into our work, but we also have the consultative framework that I talked about, and ongoing consultations, and we're doing our own evaluations.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for your question. The program you're mentioning is the enabling fund. It's the single largest initiative under our road map contribution. This is a program that allows us to contribute to the development and vitality of the official language minority commun

Official Languages committee  No, we don't. We provide the funding to these organizations, but they actually engage in some pretty useful activities. Our funding allows them to do job placements. It allows for human resource skills development, youth labour market integration initiatives, entrepreneurship awa

Official Languages committee  The good news is that many of the initiatives, in fact most of the initiatives, under our road map are intended to deal with some of the key priorities that those communities have identified. They relate to literacy and then access by immigrants to the labour market. Those issues

Official Languages committee  I noted in my last response that we actually have an annual consultation session, which is part of the framework we put in place to help guide the work we do under the road map. When we met with the representatives of the anglophone community earlier this year—I think it was last

Official Languages committee  With the road map, as we noted before, there are four specific initiatives. One that we find particularly useful is the early child care pilot project. This is a research study that looks at the impact of French language preschool programs for linguistic and cultural development

Official Languages committee  I unfortunately do not have the information you are requesting.

Official Languages committee  Certainly.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for the question. Probably the issue with respect to threats...one of the things that underlines all of the work that we do in our four initiatives under the road map is an extensive program of consultation with the official language minority communities. Fr

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much. That's a very thoughtful question; “hearts and minds” is not something I'm usually asked to respond to. HRSDC really is the department that provides a human face on the federal government for many Canadians. With respect to our road map engagement, it's ac

Official Languages committee  I love British Columbia. The six francophone communities we're looking at now are sort of ranging in a relatively restricted area—we've got New Brunswick, Ontario, and Alberta—but the research work that's done is replicable across jurisdictions. It's not confined to research th

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  We shared all the content with the office of the deputy minister and the minister's office, but the speech was prepared by the people who work for me.