Official Languages committee  There are none in the other communities. One day care is about to be established. A group recently became involved; we had to change the province's legislation on cooperatives to move things along. It was a matter of principle. Basically, the act only allowed the word “cooperat

Official Languages committee  Are we talking about the same amounts?

Official Languages committee  I don't know.

Official Languages committee  I feel that there are a number of factors. First, the consultations for the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages 2013-2018 were held very late, unlike what is happening now. At the moment, the consultations are being held one year earlier than in the process five years ago.

Official Languages committee  At the end of March 2013, when the new roadmap was announced, with a supposed starting date of April 1, were they ready? Clearly not. The government of the time wanted to look at certain aspects again. You cannot criticize a government of any kind for wondering whether it is doin

Official Languages committee  In the last census, it was 3,015 people.

Official Languages committee  That is the official number, according to Statistics Canada.

Official Languages committee  It can happen that we have projects in partnership with anglophone analysts; translating legal documents, for example, or for seniors and health. It happens, but they are real partnerships and we distribute the information in French. No anglophone organization provides bilingual

Official Languages committee  I was involved in compiling the official statistics for this area. For the Atlantic provinces, it is 42%. So you have to do the math. It would be 42% of 3,000 francophones,

Official Languages committee  Clearly, with federal-provincial agreements, the accountability must be improved. There could certainly be a debate about that. To answer your question specifically, these are not funds transferred to the provinces. These are federal funds earmarked for education. For literacy,

Official Languages committee  We no longer have RESDAC's expertise, as they have practically no funding any more. They no longer even have an office today because they operate elsewhere, thanks to some other modest funding. They have lost much of their operational capacity. RESDAC was a national organization

Official Languages committee  I'd like to build on what Mr. Boileau said. We're seeing more and more articles being written about the population explosion happening right now in French-speaking Africa. By 2050, or thereabouts, French will be the most spoken language in the world. That's not that far off.

Official Languages committee  We get the sense that there are two parallel systems: an anglophone system and a francophone one. From the get-go, francophone minority communities have a huge handicap, and we don't have many tools left to overcome that handicap.

Official Languages committee  I'd like to make a point that no one has mentioned, given that it doesn't concern our provinces directly. I'm extremely worried about the outcome in the case brought by the Yukon's French-language school board against the Yukon government. The territorial government doesn't wan

Official Languages committee  I am somewhere between Mr. Boileau and Ms. Hébert. There is not a great deal of competition, but France is still a competitor. Let me explain. France's economy is not doing so well, but it is not doing so bad either. The media blow things out of proportion. In fact, every year,