Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Official Languages
Second Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2013-14
Chair: The Honourable CLAUDETTE TARDIF
Monday, May 26, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Monday, June 9, 2014
Issue No. 7
Eighth, ninth and tenth meetings on:
The impacts of recent changes to the immigration system on official language minority communities
WITNESSES
Monday, May 26, 2014
Collège Éducacentre:
Yvon Laberge, Executive Director.
Collège Boréal:
Pierre Riopel, President;
Jean-Pierre Cantin, Director, Services and Programs, Central-Southwestern Region;
Mildred Jean-Paul, Member of the Board of Governors.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Fédération des francophones de Terre-Neuve and du Labrador:
Danielle Coombs, Coordinator.
Société franco-manitobaine:
Mamadou Ka, Chair.
Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick:
Jeanne d'Arc Gaudet, President.
Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario:
Denis Vaillancourt, President.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Citizenship and Immigration Canada:
Rénald Gilbert, Immigration Program Manager, Paris, France (by video conference);
Yves Saint-Germain, Director, Information, Language and Community Program Policy.
Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité:
Roukya Abdi Aden, Manager, National Coordination.
Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta:
Jean Johnson, Chair, Board of Directors (by video conference);
Ida Kamariza, Coordinator, Réseau en immigration francophone de l'Alberta (by video conference).
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Claudette Tardif, Chair
The Honourable Andrée Champagne, P.C., Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Beyak, *Carignan, P.C. (or Martin), Chaput, Charette-Poulin, *Cowan (or Fraser), Fortin-Duplessis, McIntyre, Poirier
* Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Fortin-Duplessis replaced the Honourable Senator Rivard (June 3, 2014).
The Honourable Senator Rivard replaced the Honourable Senator Fortin-Duplessis (June 2, 2014).
The Honourable Senator Beyak replaced the Honourable Senator Oh (May 27, 2014).
The Honourable Senator McIntyre replaced the Honourable Senator Rivard (May 27, 2014).
The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Marshall (May 27, 2014).
The Honourable Senator Oh replaced the Honourable Senator Beyak (May 26, 2014).
The Honourable Senator Rivard replaced the Honourable Senator McIntyre (May 26, 2014).
The Honourable Senator Marshall replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (May 26, 2014).