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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

Meeting No. 41

Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Standing Committee on Official Languages met at 3:32 p.m. this day, in Room 253-D Centre Block, the Chair, the Hon. Michael D. Chong, presiding.

Members of the Committee present: Corneliu Chisu, Hon. Michael D. Chong, Joe Daniel, Anne-Marie Day, Jacques Gourde, Claude Gravelle, Chungsen Leung, Jamie Nicholls and Lise St-Denis.

Acting Members present: Dave Van Kesteren for John Williamson.

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Lucie Lecomte, Analyst.

Witnesses: As an individual: Gilles LeVasseur, Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Conseil de la coopération de la Saskatchewan: Robert Therrien, Executive Director.

Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(f) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, the Committee resumed its study of the Government of Canada programs designed to promote francophone immigration into Canada's official-language minority communities (OLMCs).

Robert Therrien, by teleconference from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and Gilles LeVasseur made statements and answered questions.

Lise St-Denis moved, — That the report entitled Recruitment, Intake and Integration: What Does the Future Hold for Immigration to Official Language Minority Communities? be tabled and analyzed as part of the current study on immigration. The above report by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages was adopted by the Committee on November 16, 2010, and presented to the House on November 29, 2010.

At 4:54 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 4:54 p.m., the sitting resumed in camera.

It was agreed, — That a proposed budget in the amount of $ 26,800.00, for the study of the Government of Canada programs designed to promote francophone immigration into Canada's official-language minority communities (OLMCs), be adopted.

At 4:58 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

David Chandonnet
Clerk of the Committee

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