Official Languages committee  New Canadians play a huge role in our country, obviously. This is why we recruited somebody to be on our board of directors to represent new arrivals. We have somebody who has been in our country for two years now. She came in with a totally different mentality from ours. We don'

Official Languages committee  If a French-speaking community wants to play a role in their community, whether they're a city, they're a municipality, or what have you, then that should be at the same level as the federal government. Everything should be bilingual. They should work on a way to do that as much

Official Languages committee  No, we haven't heard about that.

Official Languages committee  Our mission is to increase the number of bilingual Canadians and to foster a greater appreciation of the French language in English Canada. That is part of the promotion. For us, young people are those graduating high school, so people in grade 12. They are between 18 and 25. I

Official Languages committee  Yes. We are simply an intermediary. We make their task easier by helping them find all the opportunities that are out there for them.

Official Languages committee  I come from a small village in Ontario, called Shedden. It is just outside London.

Official Languages committee  None. I had not heard a word of French outside the classroom until I turned 22.

Official Languages committee  I think that depends on the type of activity. If we make a presentation and the translation is not available, we are going to try to include as much French as possible.

Official Languages committee  If it is something that lasts all year round, it should be conducted in both official languages, of course. But if it is a specific event... Yes, it is important to have both languages, I am not saying it is not. It would be better to do it in both languages as much as possible.

Official Languages committee  I completely agree with you, but I thought we were talking about the 150th anniversary celebrations, which are going to last longer. The purpose of our organization is to make sure that anglophones are listening to French.

Official Languages committee  I am personally giving three presentations on the following themes. The presentation for bilingual people is called “A Canadian Ideal/Un idéal canadien” and it takes place in both languages. The English presentation is called “French, it’s not that bad”. Finally, in French, the p

Official Languages committee  Regarding the delivery of the service, we think there should be a committee that consists of the various communities with young people who all understand both official languages. That committee would receive demands for all the applications, all the grants, from all the different

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. As I mentioned in my speech, the bilingual nature of the event is very important. Each federal event is supposed to be held in both languages. That is the bottom line. Take an English-speaking municipality as an example. There is the difference I was

Official Languages committee  First of all, I have to apologize. We were given a week and a half to prepare this presentation. Unfortunately, we had no time to translate it. We tried, but it was not possible. We did our best, given the resources we have. Mr. Chair, members of the committee, good morning. Tha

Official Languages committee  Personally speaking, I'm not really for forcing people to do something, especially if they don't really have any use for it. If somebody were to study something where they had no use for French, I don't think we should oblige them to have to graduate with something in French. T