Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question, but it is a little beyond my expertise.

Official Languages committee  The data tends to show that it is not necessary to move towards that symmetry. When we look at the numbers, we see that less than 2% of post-secondary students study in French, whereas 3.8% are francophones. In Quebec, it's the opposite. There are about 14% anglophones but 20% to

Official Languages committee  It's also a matter of prestige. There are prestigious English colleges in Quebec, and McGill University. It goes beyond the prestige of English. It is difficult to study the matter of attraction. How can we attract students to French-language institutions? It's a big question

Official Languages committee  I'll do my best. I'll start by putting the issue in context, if I may. The reason I brought up retention is this. If immigrants adopt the same language behaviours as Canadian-born francophones, language retention will pose a challenge. I wasn't saying that language retention is

Official Languages committee  If immigrants have the same language behaviour, we'll have ongoing, if not growing, demographic issues. We don't really know what the next census will show us. Are language transfers currently more prevalent? We'll know soon. This dynamic hasn't been given much consideration. If

Official Languages committee  No. I'm sorry, but I haven't studied the daycare issue, so I'd rather not comment on it.

Official Languages committee  Yes. As far as the range of training programs is concerned, it's reasonable to think that institutions would benefit from introducing early education programs. They have the necessary resources; they just need more support. Cohorts can be small, so institutions have trouble offer

Official Languages committee  Not quite, but I understand the confusion, because the figures go by fast. This figure represents the 2% of people who studied in French in 2018-19 at the post-secondary level, which includes colleges and universities.

Official Languages committee  We couldn't determine what percentage of these people spoke French as their first language. That said, we had another statistic, which I'm trying to remember. If I recall correctly, of the 2015 graduates, 37% of people whose first language is French studied in French, outside Qu

Official Languages committee  Yes. Many of these people are francophiles. I can confirm that there are many francophiles, because colleges and universities provide French programs. However, in general, there aren't any immersion programs, so the student populations are often mixed.

Official Languages committee  Wow! So many things could be done, such as developing programs. When a university's options are insufficient, people won't necessarily want to go there. Scholarships are a significant incentive, because English has a very strong pull. Both of these measures could be implemente

Official Languages committee  That's a big question. In 2018-19, 46% of the revenue for post-secondary institutions came from governments. The federal government's share was around 10%, and just over 25% came from tuition. Those are the main revenues for post-secondary institutions. If we want institutions

Official Languages committee  If you look at the different dynamics that exist in post-secondary institutions, this modernization perspective is quite interesting. This is also true for immigration. There is also the idea of approaching the French issue in a different way, which was promoted in the white pap

Official Languages committee  I wasn't going back that far in that regard. As French-language post-secondary institutions have grown in recent years, one cannot think that the strength of an institution that has been around for 20 years is the same as that of one that has been around for 100 or 150 years. Ev

Official Languages committee  Post-secondary institutions play an important role in identity construction. Other studies that have been conducted before ours have shown this as well. When they acquire this sense of linguistic security and competence, students are able to communicate easily in French, offer so