Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Official Languages
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable CLAUDETTE TARDIF
Monday, March 27, 2017 (in camera)
Monday, April 3, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
Issue No. 11
Twelfth meeting:
Study on the challenges associated with access to French-language schools and French immersion programs in British Columbia
Consideration of a draft agenda (future business)
and
Fifteenth and sixteenth meetings:
Study on the application of the Official Languages Act and of the regulations and directives made under it, within those institutions subject to the Act
INCLUDING:
THE THIRD REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special Study Budget — Press Conference in Vancouver — Report on BC School French Access)
WITNESSES
Monday, April 3, 2017
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages:
Ghislaine Saikaley, Interim Commissioner of Official Languages;
Pascale Giguère, General Counsel and Director;
Mary Donaghy, Assistant Commissioner, Policy and Communications Branch;
Jean Marleau, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Compliance Assurance Branch.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Égalité Santé en Français:
Dr. Hubert Dupuis, President;
Dr. William Laplante, Treasurer;
Jacques Verge, Secretary (by video conference).
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Claudette Tardif, Chair
The Honourable Rose-May Poirier, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Bovey, Cormier, Doyle, Fraser, Gagné, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare), Maltais, McIntyre, Mégie, Mockler, Moncion, *Smith (or Martin)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the Order of the Senate of December 7, 2016, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Doyle replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (April 7, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Doyle (April 4, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Maltais replaced the Honourable Senator Boisvenu (April 4, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Doyle replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (March 30, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Boisvenu replaced the Honourable Senator Maltais (March 30, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Poirier replaced the Honourable Senator Doyle (March 29, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Fraser replaced the Honourable Senator Jaffer (March 28, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Doyle replaced the Honourable Senator Poirier (March 22, 2017).
The Honourable Senator Jaffer replaced the Honourable Senator Fraser (March 21, 2017).