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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 17
 
Thursday, May 13, 2010
 

The Standing Committee on Official Languages met at 9:05 a.m. this day, in Room 308, West Block, the Chair, Steven Blaney, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Hon. Mauril Bélanger, Steven Blaney, 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: Royal Galipeau for Sylvie Boucher.

 

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

 

Witnesses: Government of New Brunswick: Monique Drapeau-Miles, Executive Director, Population Support, Population Growth Secretariat, Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour; Mario Boisvert, Immigration Program Officer, Population Growth Secretariat. Ministerial Conference on the Canadian Francophonie: Daniel Cayen, Assistant Deputy Minister, Office of Francophone Affairs, Government of Ontario; Guy Jourdain, Director Executive, Francophone Affairs Secretariat, Government of Manitoba.

 
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.
 

Monique Drapeau-Miles and Guy Jourdain made statements and, with Mario Boisvert and Daniel Cayen, answered questions.

 

At 10:50 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Isabelle Dumas
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
2010/06/29 1:54 p.m.