Official Languages committee  I would just like to add that, over the past few weeks, we have built a structure to allow us to evaluate our options, not only on the legal and political level, but also on the community mobilization and communication level. We intend to maintain pressure on the provincial gover

Official Languages committee  I can tell you that a group of experts is currently working for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, or MCI, on making recommendations to the provincial government. The report hasn't been published yet. I can't tell you what's in it. However, there are recommendat

Official Languages committee  No. The Ontario government created the group of experts to explore ways to work with the federal government to achieve the target of 5%.

Official Languages committee  If you want figures on this aspect, we could obtain them from school boards. There are a lot of immigrants in the schools of our regions.

Official Languages committee  I would like to clarify that the number of Franco-Ontarians is increasing in Ontario, but not as quickly as the number of anglophones or people who are not Franco-Ontarians. In short, our population is growing, but it is experiencing a decline as a share of Ontario's population.

Official Languages committee  One thing the federal government could do through it committees is ensure that all departments are involved in the implementation of the programs for francophones. All departments could be partners in this. It is not the responsibility of Canadian Heritage alone. That is one of t

Official Languages committee  I would like to add that the community strategic plan is very clear, with measurable indicators. With the round tables Mr. Vaillancourt mentioned, we are making the plan operational, determining who will do what and how. So we have a very clear plan. We know what our 10-year obje

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Official Languages committee  If those recommendations were implemented, we cannot yet see the results. There is no doubt that there's still a lot of work to do in this regard. The federal government is very far from the target it set for itself, which was 4.4%. I think that the most recent figure was 1.5% o

Official Languages committee  I'd like to draw your attention to the findings of a study that the Conference Board of Canada did within the past two years. The study showed that bilingualism in New Brunswick and Quebec resulted in billions of dollars in additional economic benefits. In Ontario, we'd like to s

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Official Languages committee  Because we have three networks rather than a provincial structure in Ontario, we think that there should be a representative organization for the francophonie, an entity or provincial structure that can plan and coordinate, so that there is still a provincial strategy. That was o

Official Languages committee  I cannot specifically tell you about immigration in the north. Most francophone immigrants who settle in Ontario go to southern Ontario and fewer immigrants go to eastern Ontario. There are not many in the north. I know that the network and the groups in the north are developing

Official Languages committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Gravelle. All we know is that, at some stage, Contact interculturel francophone de Sudbury lost its contract with CIC. The Conseil économique et social d’Ottawa-Carleton, which looks after the network in eastern Ontario, was given the mandate for

Official Languages committee  That is not an easy question to answer. We are happy with the investments that have been made by the Government of Canada. They are not as extensive as those made in Quebec or Atlantic Canada but Canadian Heritage has still been investing in recent months. We in Ontario will be a