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September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  I need to answer "yes and no" in this instance. Yes, we determine what needs to be included in a test, but no, we simply don't have the capacity to deliver a test like this one throughout the world. We don't have employees in all the different cities. We don't have the capacity

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  It has to be available everywhere people apply to immigrate. Some people are in Canada when they immigrate.

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  Yes, the person can go to the embassy, ask questions, and request the documents to be filled out later. Or the person can do it online.

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  No, that would take much more time, and we don't have the capacity to do it. As you know, hundreds of thousands of people apply each year. It would be impossible for us to operate that way.

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  It would be nice.

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  We would still have to—

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  If it were the case, we would also have to do it in English. We would not be able to administer the tests in French only.

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  Yes, but if we did that, the Commissioner of Official Languages would immediately ask us why we're offering the service to francophones, and not to anglophones.

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  We're also trying to say that the fact that they can't take the test where they want, at a reasonable price, in no way prevents them from settling in a francophone minority community. That's not at all what prevents them from doing that. People have the right to go where they wan

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

Official Languages committee  That's correct.

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck

September 27th, 2016Committee meeting

Stefanie Beck