Official Languages committee  The description of a rights-holder provided in section 23 of the charter is fairly specific.

Official Languages committee  The definition was not established for the purposes of enumeration, but rather so that a citizen could come before their ministry of education or their school board to say that they are entitled to education in the language of the minority and claim that right. When someone comes

Official Languages committee  When it comes to enumeration and general population estimates, things get complicated. What we have always thought of as the majority of rights-holders is established based on the mother tongue criterion. You talked about this, and it is in your report. It is relatively simple to

Official Languages committee  In addition, a distinction must be made between someone having attended a French immersion school outside Quebec—so an English school where courses are taught in French—and having attended a French school. Obtaining that information through a simple question is already complex.

Official Languages committee  It's relatively simple for someone who comes before their school board, especially since, in most provinces, the majority of school boards will tell a citizen whose mother tongue may be English or an immigrant who is still not a Canadian citizen that the admissions committee has

Official Languages committee  I do not think I can answer on behalf of Mr. Bains and his department, but as my Statistics Canada colleagues may confirm—and they have already done so—the process to prepare census questions was established a long time ago. There are consultations and tests. Afterwards, Statisti

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Samson. As you know, federal-provincial agreements we sign in the area of education come with envelopes that can be used to recruit students. A lot of school boards use those funds that are given to them by the provinces to carry out promotion campaigns and all ty

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be brief, since I do not really have a presentation. Thank you very much for inviting us to appear before the committee. The government has responded very favourably to your report on the enumeration of rights holders. In our opinion, and this i

Justice committee  In the case of the language rights support program, the applications that were not funded might very well have been so because the panel chose the best cases that they had in front of them, and some cases had to be left out because of the lack of financial resources.

Justice committee  They do. If they are receivable, if they address a right that is covered by the program, they are examined, and the best ones are chosen.

Justice committee  It is one that has been funded, and it is a settled case. For the program to be involved in a way, one would have to find a new angle to bring to the courts. It would have to be decided that yes, it falls within the constitutional rights that have not yet been clarified. Caron w

Justice committee  I know that Michel is eager to respond to that. In fact, that Caron case was applicable to Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories, and in fact, to parts of Manitoba and even parts of other provinces that were at one time part of the Northwest Territories, which ne

Justice committee  We do not prioritize those cases. It's done independently by a panel of experts. If you want to, you're welcome to invite the language rights support program's administration to answer those questions more directly. The idea is that we have a panel of experts who will decide the

Justice committee  In the case of the language rights support program—and there are differences between the way the CCP was run and the way the language rights support program is run—the panel is composed of four lawyers who have experience and knowledge of language rights issues, one expert in ADR

Justice committee  The short answer to that is this is a program run by a third party. It was and it still is. We have a contribution agreement that is fairly detailed, but we don't go into that level of detail. If the case is accepted, the program extends the limit that has been discussed—$125,000