Official Languages committee  For Canada outside Quebec, everyone agrees on the importance of immigration to at least make it possible to stabilize and revitalize francophone communities. The same is true of schools. I think that immigration should play a very important role, provided that enough immigrants

Official Languages committee  Thank you. Good evening.

Official Languages committee  Absolutely. It's a huge challenge, because we know full well that for immigrants, it's not because you have another language as a mother tongue or that you speak that other language most often at home that you won't have a preference for English or won't turn towards English. Th

Official Languages committee  Answering this question in so little time would be rather tricky. I would say that caution is needed. Is there a political remedy or program that would enable us to take action with respect to language transfers? I personally don't know of any, and they are complex. Not only th

Official Languages committee  Well, we're talking mainly about the late 1990s. That's when immigration became more significant in terms of growth factors than natural growth, which is to say births minus deaths.

Official Languages committee  Yes, because prior to the late 1990s, natural growth was a more significant factor than immigration.

Official Languages committee  I wouldn't say outdated, exactly. I think that information about the language spoken at home is nevertheless extremely useful insofar as—

Official Languages committee  It's definitely incomplete, particularly when we are welcoming immigrants whose mother tongue is not French and not the main language they use at home. I believe that other indicators are important. One would be the language of education for children, which will help French pene

Official Languages committee  In 2022, we will have the great privilege of conducting a survey on official language minority populations. It will be a very detailed questionnaire on just about every dimension of the population's characteristics, and the information gathered can be integrated with the 2021 cen

Official Languages committee  For a long time, we tended to focus on what was happening only on the island. What we found this time was much more migration. Even French-language immigrants no longer automatically go through Montreal. They go directly to Laval or the South Shore, which partly explains why Fren

Official Languages committee  Do you mean Quebec, or all of Canada?

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question. Of course the demographic projections are based on hypotheses and scenarios. We have developed a good many such scenarios by factoring in trends observed over the previous 15 years before the 2011 census or the National Household Survey. By using the

Official Languages committee  Yes, definitely. If we focus again on the language transfers, an increase in language transfers among younger people has been observed. We might ask whether these young people, more of whom are attending English-language CEGEPs and universities, tend to be living with English-sp

Official Languages committee  Yes, definitely. I must say that this 94% result it has been very stable over time. You're not wrong however, because when we were doing some surveys in which we altered the question slightly to ask whether people could speak about various subjects, the percentage dropped. Never

Official Languages committee  Overall, that's true.