Official Languages committee  Very often, economic prosperity is the big draw that leads immigrants to northern Ontario, whether it be Hearst or Timmins. I don't know if you consider North Bay a part of northern Ontario, but for Franco-Ontarians, it is not a part of the north, which we normally consider begin

Official Languages committee  If we look at the Ontario proportion, for example, Ontario has been developing a very strong, robust francophone school system. My two daughters go to a school called Sainte-Geneviève. It's the largest francophone primary school in Canada outside Quebec. What you will notice is

Official Languages committee  This is what's happening. The official language minority community trying to reach immigrants, oftentimes, isn't aware they're out there because it doesn't know where to look. The temporary foreign worker program brought in a whole other population of workers who weren't able t

Official Languages committee  I am of the view that languages are the door to success and prosperity. This term, sir, I teach a class called international business in English. We have 127 students in the class. I teach the same class in the French language. We had a discussion about language two weeks ago i

Official Languages committee  I'm from Toronto. I was born in North York and grew up in Ontario. Fifty years ago it was very difficult to find your way to get basic services from private or public institutions in Ontario. There was this ethics of language that existed at the time, which has totally transforme

Official Languages committee  What we have noticed in the past years is that the more the population is able to communicate in both official languages, the more the economic performance has been increased because of mobility, interactions, and an increase in exchange. We have noticed that. But also, those wh

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  From what we've observed in Ontario, and a number of regions across the country, I would say that it isn't a priority for municipalities. The development of official language minority communities doesn't enter into their mandate unless the French-speaking minority in the municipa

Official Languages committee  The department does seem to have that desire. I recommended a target of 10%, but the department's target is 5%. The problem is that the 5% target hasn't been reached. If you take into account integration, assimilation and language abandonment, the figure drops to below 2%. We h

Official Languages committee  Your question has four aspects, and I'd like to touch on them. First, someone who immigrates to Canada does not always understand Canada's complex identity and, therefore, doesn't fully understand this idea of official-language communities. For instance, if someone speaks Russi

Official Languages committee  I think you’re asking me if we can trust the statistics that were collected in the last census to determine our demographic weight. The question is whether the right questions were asked. That’s the first thing. Very often, a few much more specific questions should be added for o

Official Languages committee  Questions about the language of work promote the language in an economic perspective. It is important to fully understand that a language develops and grows over the long term if it thrives economically. If this economic growth can’t occur, the language becomes an object of commu

Official Languages committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Before I start I actually did write a paper in the French language. It was not translated, but I can answer any questions in both official languages. I know I was told we had to have it in both official languages to be distributed, so I would like to a