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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

Meeting No. 14

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The Standing Committee on Official Languages met at 9:06 a.m. this day, in Room 269, 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, Yvon Godin, Monique Guay, Richard Nadeau, Tilly O'Neill-Gordon, John Weston and Lise Zarac.

Acting Members present: Hon. Denis Coderre for Jean-Claude D'Amours.

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

Witnesses: Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada: Suzanne Bossé, Director General; Sylvie Moreau, Acting Assistant Director to Immigration. Quebec Community Groups Network: Robert Donnelly, President; Sylvia Martin-Laforge, Director General; Michelle Dupuis, Director of Community Support and Network Development. Société franco-manitobaine: Ibrahima Diallo, Chairman of the Board; Bintou Sacko, Francophone Hospitality Manager.

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.

Suzanne Bossé, Robert Donnelly, Michelle Dupuis, Ibrahima Diallo and Bintou Sacko made statements and, with Sylvia Martin-Laforge and Sylvie Moreau, answered questions.

At 10:50 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 10:51 a.m., the sitting resumed.

The Committee proceeded to the consideration of matters related to Committee business.

Mauril Bélanger moved, — That the meeting of May 25th, 2010, pertaining to the study of the Roadmap 2008-2013 be televised and that the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages be invited to appear before the Committee for the full duration of the meeting.

Shelly Glover moved, — That the motion be amended by replacing the words “full duration of the meeting” with the words “last hour of the meeting, and that a departmental briefing be scheduled for the first hour”.

The question was put on the amendment of Shelly Glover and it was negatived, by a show of hands: YEAS: 5; NAYS: 6.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to, by a show of hands: YEAS: 6; NAYS: 5.

At 10:57 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 10:58 a.m., the sitting resumed in camera.

The Chair presented the Third Report from the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure which read as follows:

Your Subcommittee met on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, to consider the business of the Committee and agreed to make the following recommendations:

1. That the Société franco-manitobaine be invited to the meeting of Tuesday, May 4, 2010.

2. That the Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse and the Association canadienne-française be invited at a subsequent meeting (undetermined).

3. That the Committee hold a meeting in an Ottawa school, on June 1 or 3, 2010, for its study of immigration as a development tool in official language minority communities, and that the Clerk prepare a travel budget to that effect.

At 11:08 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Isabelle Dumas
Clerk of the Committee

2010/06/29 1:52 p.m.