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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 16
 
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
 

The Standing Committee on Official Languages met at 9:02 a.m. this day, in Room 371, West Block, the Chair, Steven Blaney, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Hon. Mauril Bélanger, Steven Blaney, Sylvie Boucher, Jean-Claude D'Amours, Bernard Généreux, Shelly Glover, Monique Guay, Richard Nadeau, Tilly O'Neill-Gordon, John Weston and Lise Zarac.

 

Acting Members present: Claude Gravelle for Yvon Godin.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Lucie Lecomte, Analyst; Nicolas Auclair, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: Government of Manitoba: Ben Rempel, Assistant Deputy Minister, Immigration Division, Department of Labour and Immigration; Colin Lemoine, Policy and Program Analyst, Immigration Division, Department of Labour and Immigration; Lei Wang, Program Officer, Settlement and Labour Market Services Branch, Department of Labour and Immigration. Government of Nova Scotia: Elizabeth Mills, Executive Director, Office of Immigration; Joëlle Désy, Nova Scotia Nominee Program Officer, Office of Immigration.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(f) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Thursday, March 11, 2010, the Committee resumed consideration of the study of immigration as a development tool in official language minority communities.
 

Ben Rempel and Elizabeth Mills made statements and, with Joëlle Désy and Colin Lemoine, answered questions.

 

At 10:44 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Isabelle Dumas
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
2010/06/29 1:53 p.m.