Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. It's an excellent question. Before I give the floor to my colleague, Mr. Lepage, who worked hard on these issues, I want to clarify something. Between 2010 and 2012, Statistics Canada published 11 provincial and territorial portraits for a total of n

Official Languages committee  This gives me a chance to promote our organization a bit. Statistics Canada quite recently published the results of a study conducted on young graduates. The size of the sample was roughly 30,000 people. We have a lot of information of a linguistic nature. We also have data on t

Official Languages committee  The results were officially published on the Statistics Canada website. I recently learned of the results of this study and its potential, given the number of linguistic questions it leaves unanswered. Yes, we will discuss it with our partners. This data will certainly help us be

Official Languages committee  The national household survey includes questions on the mobility of workers from province to province and on self-employed workers with or without work. There is quite a bit of information. We do not have any specific information on the entrepreneurship of official language minor

Official Languages committee  I understand your question perfectly. All the data on the socio-economic characteristics or the economic development of the communities no longer come from the census, but from the national household survey. Having a provincial or regional perspective is not a major challenge. T

Official Languages committee  As you know, Statistics Canada cannot make recommendations on that. Often, we try to find other ways to answer those questions. Of course, for people...

Official Languages committee  Yes, but...

Official Languages committee  I will give you an example. On March 26, Statistics published an overview of Canada's official language communities. That overview included information on more than 5,000 municipalities across the country. Nonetheless, in the case of the municipalities where the numbers are quit

Official Languages committee  In that sense, this is not necessarily a problem since the people you are referring to, who work in those regions, are generally included in the national household survey. We do have information on them. As I was telling you, it is really in the very small communities that the si

Official Languages committee  Good morning. I would like to thank the members of the committee for inviting Statistics Canada to appear and offer input to their discussions on the current situation and historical evolution of the socioeconomic conditions of official-language minorities in Canada. With me tod

Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  In fact, they cited all kinds of reasons—

Official Languages committee  —in particular supply, availability, distance and program quality.

Official Languages committee  That is a good question. Of course, we can see some very strong trends. As I have mentioned several times, some challenges are associated with the changes in population composition. The larger proportion of immigrants moving toward English outside Quebec is a factor in this rega

Official Languages committee  It is usually departments.