Official Languages committee  For now, yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes, on page 9, we define what a language clause should include, in particular a requirement that the province consult francophone minorities and stakeholders to allow their priorities to be taken into account and to provide funding to meet their needs, which is very important. S

Official Languages committee  Yes, I think they reveal a political will.

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely. All our amendment requests are based on well-established principles in the bill but are intended to provide clarification in order to go further.

Official Languages committee  We speak on behalf of francophone communities outside Quebec, but certainly our destiny is intimately bound up with the future of French in North America. Consequently, additional steps must be taken to support French in Quebec as well.

Official Languages committee  I think that the more the demographic weight of francophones declines, the faster the assimilation will be. It seems obvious to us that newcomers who settle here, with their skills and their vision of this global francophonie, can only strengthen and vitalize the broader francoph

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  Yes, that's a long-standing request of the school boards, particularly francophone school boards, which would like to have access to surplus real property. Sometimes it's very hard to find buildings and to access them. If that were included in the act, it would be an obligation…

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  The wording of what we're proposing is on page 12 of the brief we distributed. It's clarified there.

Official Languages committee  On page 20, we propose to expand the commissioner's order-making power by granting him a new power under Bill C‑13. We want to extend that power beyond part IV of the act, which concerns services, and part V, which concerns rights respecting language of work, among other things.

Official Languages committee  On page 12 of the brief we distributed to you, we propose much clearer wording for the immigration policy. Under Bill C‑13, the government would commit to "maintaining or increasing the demographic weight" of francophones. Instead, we think that the purpose of the policy should

Official Languages committee  I hear the messages of the political parties. However, what's important to know is that the communities are ready, and they have clear ideas that we want to put forward. We expect the committee to do its job. I think it's truly possible to make transpartisan gains on official lan

Official Languages committee  We took part in the consultations of the expert panel that Ms. Joly organized. Under the model we proposed, citizens in all regions of Canada where there are francophone communities would be able to obtain services in their language from federally regulated businesses and would a

Official Languages committee  For example, the policy on francophone immigration promised in Bill C‑13 is essential. As the demographic weight of our communities has been in free fall for decades, we need a strong and clear francophone immigration policy so we can establish new targets and, above all, impleme