The Chair presented the Second Report from the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure which read as follows:
Your Subcommittee met on Thursday, April 15, 2010, to consider the business of the Committee and agreed to make the following recommendations:
That the Committee meet with a delegation from Finland on Thursday, April 29, 2010; and that the Clerk, in consultation with the Chair, make the necessary arrangements for a working lunch.
That the meetings for the study of immigration as a development tool for official languages minority communities be organized as follows:
- First meeting: Statistics Canada.
- Second meeting: Michèle Vatz Laaroussi, Patricia Lamarre, Richard Y. Bourhis, Charles Castonguay, Chedly Belkhodja, Jack Jedwab and Diane Farmer.
- Third meeting: Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada, Quebec Community Groups Network, Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick.
- Fourth meeting: The departments of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (in particular the Francophone Minority Communities Steering Committee), and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
- Fifth meeting: Various organizations at the Provincial level (to be determined later).
That the Subcommittee meet at a later date to plan future meetings on the study of immigration.