Official Languages committee  My colleagues who manage the program have it evaluated every five years. That is an opportunity for them to consider whether existing criteria are appropriate. I cannot speak for them, but that is one of the responsibilities at the time of the evaluation. Checking to see whether

Official Languages committee  It is the responsibility of Canadian Heritage.

Official Languages committee  They are colleagues within Canadian Heritage.

Official Languages committee  It can be done in several ways. In infrastructure, Canadian Heritage can help the provinces build day care centres in the schools. That is what we have done in some instances. Mr. Samson will remember this because there are examples of it in Nova Scotia. We have done this to a

Official Languages committee  Yes. One priority area we intend to act on is teacher training. For the moment, supply is one of the major barriers to increasing the number of teachers and, as some will say, improving the quality of immersion teachers.

Official Languages committee  I would like to clarify one point with regard to the figures. In the second roadmap, which is essentially the third action plan for official languages, certain amounts that were previously included and that concerned the administration of programs were cut.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, I would like some clarification.

Official Languages committee  This file is the responsibility of the Department of Heritage, not the Department of Justice. However, we are working very closely with our friends at the Department of Justice in order to offer the program.

Official Languages committee  There are obviously a lot of scenarios. Some programs are exclusively our responsibility, while, under others, it is the provinces that deliver a particular service with federal government support. So there are many service delivery levels. The “by and for” question has come up i

Official Languages committee  Yes, that is our responsibility.

Official Languages committee  I can understand this is a bit hard to follow. The current roadmap is essentially a presentation of funding that was increased in the early 2000s and that, to a large degree, has been preserved. In many cases, it has been preserved by programs that that have been amended and imp

Official Languages committee  There's a lot in that question. I'll try to address some of the points. First of all, in terms of the number of requests and the capacity of the school system to offer immersion, one of the biggest issues, I'm sure you're aware, is the number of competent teachers available, whi

Official Languages committee  I think it would be presumptuous for us and a bit outside of our duty to express opinions on how to go about it, but I will say that these issues, at the level both of recruitment and of integration, are the object of constant discussions between ourselves and our colleagues in I

Official Languages committee  Maybe Jean-Pierre can add to that. It is going to be focused specifically on that very issue, with federal and provincial officials around the table.

Official Languages committee  You're right. Previously, in terms of minority community service delivery, the reflex was to have an organization from the community provide the service. It didn't hold true all the time; it was simply the natural reflex when an organization in the community was available to carr