Official Languages committee  The difficult thing to understand is that we're not talking about francophones and anglophones here. In the census, five or six possible definitions of francophone or anglophone may be used, but this distinction isn't made. Each person is free to use one definition or another. A

Official Languages committee  You're asking a very important question. As I said earlier, we must first determine whether the census is the best tool to answer these questions. You know that the census currently has over 50 questions. We receive all kinds of requests to add questions from across the country.

Official Languages committee  You're absolutely right. Obviously, we don't ask specific questions such as “are you a rights-holder?” I think the distinction between the parents and their children is the main source of confusion. The children aren't the rights-holders. Their parents are the rights-holders. Th

Official Languages committee  We must distinguish between identification with a community and the fact that a person is designated francophone or non-francophone. In principle, section 23 doesn't make this distinction and doesn't mention the term “francophone” or “anglophone”. That said, paragraph 23(1)(a)

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the committee members for inviting me, as a representative of Statistics Canada, to appear before them to contribute to their study on the issues related to the enumeration of rights-holders under section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights

Official Languages committee  As I said earlier, an update will be given on this topic to Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The 2010 report contain information, dating back to 1991, for every 10 years up to the 2006 census. We provided an update in order to see how the situation of these immigrants and tha

Official Languages committee  As I mentioned earlier, French-speaking immigrants are very educated. They are more educated than immigrants who speak other languages. However, they face significant challenges integrating into the labour market. For example, we note the fact that not having a good command of En

Official Languages committee  There's an adaptation, but there's a challenge regarding this adaptation in terms of, let's say, the major fields in which these young francophones have been studying, where they work, in which sectors. As you know, some of the sectors are more likely to hire young Canadians righ

Official Languages committee  As you know, Statistics Canada's mandate is to carry out analyses and studies in many areas, such as immigration, health, bilingualism and others. Some comparative studies have been done by Statistics Canada for Employment and Social Development Canada's Enabling Fund for Officia

Official Languages committee  I cannot talk about the treatment; we don't have information on this topic. However, what is clear is that the socio-demographic and socio-economic profile of francophones in New Brunswick is very different from the ones we see in other parts of the country outside of Quebec. I

Official Languages committee  Are you talking about younger people?

Official Languages committee  To give you a very general answer, that depends on the sector of industry. As you know, economic cycles will influence where we have supply and where we have demand. It is clear that, in certain regions, such as New Brunswick in particular, the socio-economic situation of franco

Official Languages committee  We have to bear in mind a very important piece of information. Studies have shown that what makes a difference is the ability to use both languages and not just being bilingual. I will give you an example. Many bilingual people never use this language in public, whether it is at

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. As I mentioned earlier, in 2010 Statistics Canada performed a study in collaboration with Citizenship and Immigration Canada on the French-speaking immigrant population. We have produced an update with the 2011 data, which we are about to deliver to

Official Languages committee  As you've pointed out, it is quite clear that this industry sector is well concentrated in Quebec. Certainly the minister of education in Quebec has a lot of statistics on that type of information. A lot of this information is available on their website, but for sure we could hav