Procedure and House Affairs committee  A number of groups in the media sector are very interested in this. Google is working with the First Peoples' Cultural Council in B.C. As you know, B.C. has the majority of indigenous languages. Apple is also doing work. In our program, we support applications being driven by ind

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Oh, yes. Some of these big groups are very interested because that technology can actually, in some cases, circumvent difficulties in trying to get some interpretation because, again, of the remoteness or the lack of language interlocutors.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, and some right now are going directly from indigenous to English or French, or even indigenous to indigenous.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One area that could perhaps inform would be the New Zealand situation with the Maori. I don't have that data, but I think that could be a good example of a really good, yet complicated question.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Allowing young indigenous persons to hear their language spoken in the Parliament of Canada, a country they are part of, is the direction we are going in. As to official languages, we cannot answer that question right now. As you know, a bill is being developed, in cooperation wi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Let's say we are about to tackle that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Within our particular—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll let Stats Canada go ahead.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would also like to point out that, for the programs we administer, it is the communities that determine the gaps they have and what they need in terms of language learning, language revitalization, and the promotion of language. Communities are the ones that are actually tellin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of those languages that are extinct that—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll have to get back to you, because they know, but we don't have a list of them here with us. We can get back to you on that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Here? Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you for allowing us to be here to provide information on indigenous languages in Canada as part of your study of the interpretation of indigenous languages in the House of Commons. I would like first to acknowledge that we are on tradition