Official Languages committee  The introduction of the Mobilité francophone program was excellent news, but it cannot solve all the problems and does not meet all the needs. It is excellent news and an excellent start, but more has to be done.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  All our recommendations are tools to achieve that target. We also realize that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's programs and methods are in a way being fragmented. The department must find a way to determine how it can concentrate its services and develop tools tha

Official Languages committee  Destination Canada is currently held in three cities. I think we would do well to include francophone immigration in other spaces where the federal government, that is to say Canada, is likely to go and recruit people who will come and live here. There are other countries where

Official Languages committee  What would we do differently?

Official Languages committee  Yes, a killer question. I think the most important thing we would have to do would be to determine the most fundamental effects we want to achieve with the resources we have and the money we invest. We would have to determine the best ways to spend the money to achieve our goals

Official Languages committee  What interests me most is really the impact we can have. Developing communities and community organizations: that is probably the best way to have a long-term impact. You need to have living communities for francophone communities to develop.

Official Languages committee  Good morning.

Official Languages committee  I do not have a specific and precise answer for you as to an amount. However, I know that funding under the first roadmap was allocated to facilitate the communities' involvement in Destination Canada, for example. I also know that the documents the FCFA has prepared in the past,

Official Languages committee  You know, the FCFA website has a francophone immigration section providing detailed information on the services offered in each community and a snapshot of our communities, in addition to other information. We constantly invite people to go to the website and get informed. Howeve

Official Languages committee  There too you are talking about federal-provincial agreements.

Official Languages committee  Here is an example. Under the roadmap, it so happened that we responded to calls for tenders for projects and that those projects went to anglophone organizations that had proposed to provide services in French. Doing things this way does indeed deliver French-language services b

Official Languages committee  Thank you. I understand your question. I think the organizations representing the francophone communities are in the best position because they are horizontal, cross-sectional, and it is their mandate to see to the well-being of their community as a whole, not just the sector th

Official Languages committee  Mr. Arseneault, in most provinces and territories, there is a representative organization that plays that role, that speaks in policy matters on behalf of the francophone community, and that represents the francophone community as a whole and all sectors. So if you are looking fo

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. As you know, we were initially supposed to appear before you in September on the matter of francophone immigration. We requested a delay because we were preparing to hold the very first meeting of the Table nationale de concertation communautaire