Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages

First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18

Chair: The Honourable RENÉ CORMIER

Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Friday, October 26, 2018

Issue No. 30

Thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth meetings:

Examine and report on Canadians' views about modernizing the Official Languages Act

INCLUDING:
THE TENTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE:
(Modernizing the Official Languages Act - The Views of Official Language Minority
Communities)

• Minutes of Proceedings - October 24, 2018
• Minutes of Proceedings - October 25, 2018
• Minutes of Proceedings - October 26, 2018
• Tenth report of the committee
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - October 24, 2018
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - October 25, 2018
• Transcript (Evidence) of Proceedings - October 26, 2018

WITNESSES:

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Dialogue New Brunswick:

Nadine Duguay-Lemay, Chief Executive Officer;

Maxime Bourgeois, Board Director.

FRYE Festival:

Suzanne Cyr, Chair.

City of Moncton:

Dawn Arnold, Mayor;

Nicole O. Melanson, Manager, Communications and Bilingual Services.

As an individual:

Denis Roy, Dean, Faculty of Law, Université de Moncton.

Association des juristes d'expression française du Nouveau-Brunswick:

Yves Goguen, President.

Thursday, October 25, 2018

As individuals:

Érik Labelle Eastaugh, Director, International Observatory on Language Rights, Université de Moncton;

Karine McLaren, Director, Centre for Legal Translation and Terminology, Université de Moncton.

Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick:

Rachel Maillet Bard, Chair;

Sylvio Boudreau, First Vice-President;

Josée Rioux-Walker, Sector Advisor-Trades and Justice.

Friday, October 26, 2018

Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick:

Michel Carrier, Acting Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick;

Hugues Beaulieu, Executive Director.

As an individual:

Dominic Caron, Lawyer, Pink Larkin.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable René Cormier, Chair

The Honourable Rose-May Poirier, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

*Day(or Mercer), Gagné, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Jaffer, Maltais, McIntyre, Mégie, Moncion, Smith, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)

* Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Change in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Maltais replaced the Honourable Senator Mockler (October 23, 2018).