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Official Languages committee I don't know.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I don't want to say it's the unfortunate rule of three, but we translate about 75 judgments a year. The $200,000 in funding made it possible to translate 80 more judgments. Considering that judges in Quebec issue some 22,000 decisions a year—
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee The Laurentian and Lanaudière regions are the pool with the highest increase in Quebec's population, but the number of judges has not increased accordingly.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee Do you mean in terms of lawyers or judges?
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I wouldn't be able to answer your question, because I've never had that experience.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I don't know.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I can tell you that the last time I went to Saint-Jérôme for an out-of-court settlement, I was before an anglophone judge. That said, my answer is very anecdotal.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee As was said earlier, I know that it is done in New Brunswick.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I don't know whether other parts of Canada have received grants for translation from English into French.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee Please note that I said nothing to that effect.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee The answer is probably not the same in all jurisdictions. Ms. Lapointe pointed out that there were probably fewer services outside the major centres. I know it's not a problem in Montreal, but I went to Toronto this year when the courts resumed and I heard about the issue with de
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee That grant was a one-time deal. There was an annual amount of $200,000 for two years. The funding was then phased out over two years to bring it all back to zero. However, SOQUIJ had begun to translate the judgments before that. It started the work in 2003. When federal assistan
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee That's right.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee It's been since the 2013-2014 fiscal year.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee There are actually fewer services. We have gone back to the basic services provided before we received the federal assistance.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin