Official Languages committee  Thank you for the question. We are very thankful for the support we receive from the federal government, but there is room for improvement. As I said in my presentation, in light of the amounts we receive, we cannot offer the programs that are available in the majority community

Official Languages committee  As for the young people who come to Alberta, I would say there are two categories, depending on the work they do. Those who work in the trades can do that work, even if they don't speak English very well. Often, their employer assigns them to a supervisor who speaks both languag

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely. This is going to make the imbalance worse, whereas francophone immigration had been put in place to redress the demographic imbalance. With regard to selection, we see that certain avenues are going to favour anglophone immigration. Temporary immigrants will beco

Official Languages committee  In fact, training is a provincial jurisdiction, I know, but there is a lot of collaboration between the provinces, the territories and the federal government regarding immigration. That has been expressed quite clearly in everything I quoted up till now. As for the Express Entry

Official Languages committee  As for the interest our province has in francophone immigration, that is quite an interesting question. The attempts we have made to encourage cooperation from the province regarding francophone immigration have not always met with great interest. That said, we appreciate the sm

Official Languages committee  I would like to go back to the question regarding data collected through the International Household Survey. There is a risk that the data collected there may not be reliable. Earlier I gave as an example the exercise we did to determine how many immigrants from Quebec settle eac

Official Languages committee  We have not yet done any comparative study of both categories, but it is obvious that very few of them return home, especially when they come from foreign countries. As I was saying, we don't welcome many of them, but we receive a large number from Quebec. Currently we are stud

Official Languages committee  One does not prevent the other. If we have this economic advantage, I think we should take advantage of it to strengthen our francophone vitality, because if we say that they come for economic reasons and do nothing, our francophone vitality may suffer. Yes, there is economic im

Official Languages committee  All of the employers choose francophone immigrants first because of their skills. There is a reality, which is that they encourage francophone immigrants, of course, and hire them, insofar as they have the needed skills. However, we must not lose sight of the fact that even thos

Official Languages committee  Yes. These immigrants take part in all of our activities. They register their children in the schools and they take part in all the activities of francophone life. In fact, even if they work in English, they live in French. This is all to the advantage of the francophone communit

Official Languages committee  If we had been consulted, we would have highlighted the fact that francophones are currently at a disadvantage in the Express Entry program. As I said, there is the matter of the recognition of diplomas and the selection of unilingual francophones. People say that both official

Official Languages committee  Post-secondary education plays a major role in francophone immigration as it does in immigration in general. Earlier in my presentation, I referred to Canada's International Education Strategy. On page 10, this document states that: “According to Citizenship and Immigration Cana

Official Languages committee  I would not speak about discrimination as such, but we are concerned that the program as it stands may not take this large pool of francophones into account, especially because of the recognition of degrees issue. That is why we made the following recommendation: Conduct a comp

Official Languages committee  We observed that training standards in the French and Anglo-Saxon systems are not always the same. I will use physicians as an example. There was a time when immigrants who had been trained in England or in South Africa would arrive in Canada and were authorized to practise, but

Official Languages committee  The allophones who immigrate to Alberta automatically choose to integrate into the majority. In my brief, I talk about people who come from Quebec. Allophones who have resided in Quebec have usually had the opportunity to learn French. In that case, they feel more at home in the