Official Languages committee  Yes. There are 300 graduates.

Official Languages committee  That is correct.

Official Languages committee  I am going to answer as simply as possible. The biggest consequence is language insecurity. Ms. McLaren referred to this. Francophones show up and request a service in French. The person in front of them answers, more or less. We know what people usually do then: they immediately

Official Languages committee  I can answer your question, Mr. Lefebvre. I am also going to go back to Mr. Choquette's question. At the Réseau, we consider it important to measure the progress achieved. That is part of our approach. If we cannot measure something, it is difficult to manage it, and if we do no

Official Languages committee  The federal government is supposed to offer other types of programs. There are very few in the provinces. If we offer training in legal French to a police force in Winnipeg, how many people are going to attend? However, if we add the St-Pierre-Jolys detachment, there might be mo

Official Languages committee  I do not recall the figures, but until 2003, the former POLAJ, which Ms. McLaren mentioned, invested a total of about $650,000 per year in the field of justice. Starting in 2003, that figure rose to about $10 million. In 2008, it was about $14 million. Since 2013, it has been abo

Official Languages committee  The Department of Justice could give you all the details on that, but I can still give you an initial idea. For several years, we mainly invested in access to the courts. We were talking about access to justice, but we were mainly investing in prosecutors and in training provinc

Official Languages committee  I could give you an example. At present, we offer on-the-job training for employees. We have done statistical analyses. We estimate that outside Quebec alone, about 12,000 employees use French in relation to the justice system, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. For four or fiv

Official Languages committee  Mr. Chair, I first want to thank you for inviting us to speak before the committee as part of the study of the full implementation of the Official Languages Act. Our presentation is divided into three parts. First of all, I would like to talk to you briefly about three of the re