Official Languages committee  You asked me a question about Statistics Canada.

Official Languages committee  Statistics Canada has selected 15 individuals who represent all of Canadian society and who are among the top experts on the topic. The comments and suggestions we have received have been extremely relevant and extremely helpful. With that input, we think we will be able to put f

Official Languages committee  The committee's first meeting was on January 25.

Official Languages committee  We mentioned November, but as you know, it is not easy getting everyone to the table.

Official Languages committee  I don't know what you mean by “expert”.

Official Languages committee  No, that is not true.

Official Languages committee  We have spent roughly five hours with 15 people around the table talking exclusively about rights holders.

Official Languages committee  We can send you a draft of the questions. You have to remember, however, that it is up to Statistics Canada to determine the content. We cannot make exceptions for one part of the questionnaire over another. We have no choice. It is a matter of consistency. With regard to method

Official Languages committee  I do not know if Statistics Canada has been doing things wrong. All I can say is that there was clear pressure in 2006 for Statistics Canada to conduct a study of the vitality of official language minority communities, and thus to enumerate rights holders. Statistics Canada canno

Official Languages committee  That is in fact something we are discussing. As I said earlier, the burden on respondents also has to be considered. There are general statistics, the law of large numbers, and so forth. For decades we have been able to demonstrate that we can get better results using one questio

Official Languages committee  The short form is administered to 75% of the population and the long form to 25% of the population.

Official Languages committee  No. I mean, you are partly right. It depends on methodological considerations. That is part of Statistics Canada's methodological and scientific work. You know, that is like saying that all the data about the labour market, language of work, questions about housing conditions,

Official Languages committee  ...because the questions are in the long form only. You have to realize that a lot of very robust and long-standing aspects of methodology are designed to ensure that the results gathered are representative of Canadian society, regardless of whether the short-form or long-form ce

Official Languages committee  We are working on that right now.

Official Languages committee  We are discussing it. That does not in any way impede the qualitative and quantitative testing of the census. That is something different.