Official Languages committee  That's a very good question. It's not easy. Obviously, we have to investigate. We don't really have the data to support this, but I think we've heard many times that there are a lot of parents who consider learning French as a real asset, as a great tool. They consider going th

Official Languages committee  These data concern immersion schools. In other words, these are English-language schools that offer French-language immersion programs.

Official Languages committee  They are not counted, since this—

Official Languages committee  Since the committee meeting was to focus essentially on immersion programs, I did not present any data on the French schools. Every year, Statistics Canada publishes a document in which we provide and distinguish data on enrolments by province. However, data on immersion program

Official Languages committee  If you wish, we can easily send you that information. It is available on the Statistics Canada's website and provides statistics for the past five years.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. We have to agree on what the expression "demolinguistic picture" means. If the goal is to paint a picture at a very specific geographic level, the census provides us with that information. It gathers data on the evolution of bilingualism, enrolments,

Official Languages committee  Once again, that depends on the geographic level. When we published on May 8, we mentioned that the data were considered to be of good quality for the provinces, the national level and the major metropolitan areas. Of course, we noted that more than 1,100 small municipalities w

Official Languages committee  We managed for the first time to measure the parent rights holders phenomenon accurately in the Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities in 2006. In the past, we had essentially used estimates based on census data on mother tongue, since that is one of the three im

Official Languages committee  That is correct. For your information, approximately 15% of children who have at least one francophone parent are enrolled in immersion programs. We therefore clearly have information on the composition and total number of students enrolled. However, we would also have to know,

Official Languages committee  The information is available for official language minorities. Earlier I mentioned the Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities, which was conducted in 2006, and in which we asked those kinds of questions. Unfortunately, we do not have that information on the entire

Official Languages committee  The parent is not necessarily required to speak very good French. Under section 23, the parent—

Official Languages committee  Yes. The parent must be francophone.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. To clarify—

Official Languages committee  I can use English, if you want.

Official Languages committee  The information that I conveyed to you in our remarks concerns only immersion programs. It does not concern minority schools, that is to say those considered to be French-language schools.