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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 12
Monday, February 24, 2003
The
Standing Committee on Official Languages met in a televised session at 3:35 p.m.
this day, in Room 237-C, Centre Block, the Chair, Mauril Bélanger, presiding.
Members of the Committee
present:
Carole-Marie Allard, Mauril Bélanger, John Herron, Scott Reid, Raymond Simard and
Yolande Thibeault.
Acting Members present: Clifford Lincoln for Eugène
Bellemare and Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral for Benoît Sauvageau.
In attendance: From the Research Branch of the
Library of Parliament: Marion
Ménard, Analyst.
Appearing: The Honourable Denis Coderre,
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
Witnesses: From the Department of
Citizenship and Immigration: Michel Dorais, Deputy Minister; Rosaline
Frith, Director General, Integration.
Pursuant to Standing Order
108(3)(d), the Committee resumed its study on Part VII of the Official
Languages Act ("Immigration and Official Language Minority
Communities").
At 4:46 p.m., the Committee
adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Marc-Olivier Girard
Clerk of the Committee