Official Languages committee  I would add that francophones are also assimilating. francophones who anglicize join the anglophone population and leave the francophone population. This kind of linguistic assimilation is occurring at twice the rate and has twice as many consequences as the anglicization or fra

Official Languages committee  Mr. Boulerice, a francophone who works in the language of his choice may work in English. That occurs too often in the Canadian public service in Ottawa, and I dislike the words “the official language of your choice”. We'd like to know if francophones actually work in French, no

Official Languages committee  Absolutely not.

Official Languages committee  A few weeks ago, someone said that 44% of people whose mother tongue was French felt that they were inhibited and that their linguistic expression was limited to speaking English on the job in Canada's public service and, I believe, associated businesses…

Official Languages committee  …under federal authority. If that's not the case after half a century of the Official Languages Act, I don't see how the Official Languages Act, in its current state, can improve matters in the least.

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your interest in my little pamphlet, Mr. Blaney. The brief I'll be submitting to your committee in a few days, in both English and French, will expand on that analysis. The pamphlet focused solely on Quebec. I've expanded my analysis for you to include all of Canada

Official Languages committee  No, I didn't mention interprovincial immigration at all.

Official Languages committee  I agree, but I'm also thinking of the proposal I submitted to you some time ago that we consider the idea of requiring newcomers to demonstrate adequate knowledge of French as a condition for obtaining citizenship. That's along the same lines, and it's the very first step toward

Official Languages committee  I'd rather comment further on immigration outside Quebec. Francophone immigration to Quebec definitely has the potential to expand and persist, to contribute permanently to French in Quebec and thus in Canada. As I confirm in my brief, native Quebecers who migrate outside Quebec

Official Languages committee  We wouldn't be able to ensure the demographic weight of francophones that way because immigration isn't strong enough. Their weight will decline, but the weight of English would fall proportionately. What we've been experiencing for 15 years, since the 2001 census, is that the we

Official Languages committee  The only thing I can think of off the top of my head…

Official Languages committee  …is the proposal to require newcomers who choose to make Quebec their home and who are candidates for Canadian citizenship to demonstrate satisfactory knowledge of French. I think that's the first step toward recognition of a significant difference between living in Quebec and l

Official Languages committee  I wanted to contribute to your work by presenting more of an observation based on the data most important for the future. I'm not the one who's saying this; it's sociolinguistics, the history of languages. In his work, Nicholas Ostler has concluded that the most important factor

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Our language policies are failing to preserve both Canada's English-French linguistic duality and the French character of Quebec itself. My conclusion is based on close to a half-century of census data. First, I'll say