Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Official Languages
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18
Chair: The Honourable RENÉ CORMIER
Monday, May 28, 2018
Monday, June 4, 2018
Monday, June 11, 2018
Issue No. 25
Consideration of a draft agenda (future business)
Twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth meetings:
Examine and report on Canadians' views about modernizing the Official Languages Act
WITNESSES
Monday, May 28, 2018
Quebec Community Groups Network:
James Shea, President;
Geoffrey Chambers, Vice-President;
Eva Ludvig, Director;
Sylvia Martin-Laforge, Director General.
Quebec English School Boards Association:
Jennifer Maccarone, President;
Marion Sandilands, Lawyer (Power Law).
Community Health and Social Services Network:
Jennifer Johnson, Executive Director (by video conference);
Russel Kueber, Manager of Programs (by video conference).
Monday, June 4, 2018
Regional Association of West Quebecers:
Linton Garner, Executive Director.
Townshippers' Association:
Rachel Hunting, Executive Director.
Monday, June 11, 2018
Office of the French Language Services Commissioner of Ontario:
François Boileau, French Language Services Commissioner;
Joseph Morin, Legal Counsel.
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick:
Katherine d'Entremont, Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick.
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, 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 McIntyre replaced the Honourable Senator Mockler (May 29, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Mockler replaced the Honourable Senator McIntyre (May 24, 2018).