Finance committee  Yes, please.

Finance committee  I simply want to add something about clients. Mr. Alexander referred to immigrants and international students. These people represent many of the clients in our 21 francophone colleges and universities across Canada. There are also many clients from francophone and immersion sch

Finance committee  I was referring to a non-indexed status quo.

Official Languages committee  When I speak of infrastructure, I'm not referring to buildings. I'm referring to the service infrastructure in our colleges and universities. Simon Fraser University, which is one of our members and offers some French programming in Vancouver, is an example. The university has p

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for asking that question, Mr. Choquette. I haven't had much opportunity to talk about the justice field, and you're giving me the opportunity to return to it. A study done by the Department of Justice has shown that we need to train four times more profession

Official Languages committee  There are two major components to our collective projects: program creation and offer; and the development of support services for promotion, recruitment and retention in our institutions. Given where the institutions are at, we are no longer considering developing programs excl

Official Languages committee  Incidentally, I'm a graduate of Laurentian's faculty of education, and I also have a degree from the University of Ottawa. My understanding is that the challenge is mainly about immersion teachers, and teachers who teach French. I think the shortage is biggest there. At least th

Official Languages committee  That's an excellent question. I'm happy to have the opportunity to talk about it. In the coming years, we could implement services if we receive significant funding. There's extraordinary potential on the immersion side, for example. Indeed, many people can adopt a linguisticall

Official Languages committee  I would also like to talk about the continuum. After that, I will provide concrete examples. A bit earlier, the importance for young people to start in the francophone system in early childhood was mentioned, because it's well known that every time there's a sensitive transition

Official Languages committee  We're considering it. There's a shortage of immersion teachers, and French teachers in our schools. It's a problematic situation. We are indeed in touch with Quebec to see how we might help our schools find francophone teachers. We are working on that with the ACPI—the Canadian a

Official Languages committee  No. The schools themselves should be able to answer that. We hear of the shortage anecdotally. Our colleges and universities, which often have close relationships with schools, are quite aware of the problem. Our network of 21 colleges and universities has nine faculties of educ

Official Languages committee  With respect to immigration, we've implemented a pre-departure project that enables us to go to certain countries and acquaint people with francophone Canada. When we're abroad, our main work is to tell people about francophone Canada outside Quebec, in order to encourage immigra

Official Languages committee  Well, I can give you some data on the subject. The data are from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Official Languages. It's a very interesting report, published in the summer of 2015, concerning the immersion clientele. The report contained some very interesting reco

Official Languages committee  No, it doesn't.

Official Languages committee  There is still an enormous amount of work to do on that. I appreciate your question, because it's a very important aspect to remember.