Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Official Languages
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17
Chair: The Honourable RENÉ CORMIER
Monday, March 19, 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018
Issue No. 22
Twentieth and twenty-first meetings:
Examine and report on Canadians' views about modernizing the Official Languages Act
INCLUDING:
THE EIGHTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Budget 2018-2019 - Travel Activity Quebec)
WITNESSES
Monday, March 19, 2018
Association de la presse francophone:
Francis Sonier, President;
Linda Lauzon, Executive Director.
As an individual:
Marie-Hélène Eddie, Doctoral student in sociology, University of Ottawa.
Monday, March 26, 2018
Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada:
Jean Johnson, Chair;
Alain Dupuis, Executive Director;
Mark Power, Lawyer (Power Law);
Beth James, Strategic Counsel (Power Law).
Alliance des femmes de la francophonie canadienne:
Soukaina Boutiyeb, Executive Director.
Fédération des aînées et aînés francophones du Canada:
Élizabeth Allard, Chair;
Jean-Luc Racine, Director General.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable René Cormier, Chair
The Honourable Rose-May Poirier, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
*Day (or Mercer), Gagné, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Jaffer, Maltais, McIntyre, Mégie, Mockler, Moncion, Smith, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Maltais replaced the Honourable Senator Mockler (March 20, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Mockler replaced the Honourable Senator Maltais (March 16, 2018).