{"time": "2013-06-13 17:10:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Peter Sylvester", "fr": "M. Peter Sylvester"}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3426418\" data-originallang=\"en\">If I may also comment, to build on something the minister said earlier, Mr. Casey, there's a nuance here which I think is really important to understand. It's something that the minister adverted to earlier in his comments in the first round. It is that the premise we're working on as we build momentum towards the second road map is one that is focused increasingly on economic immigration, as Corinne has said.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3426419\" data-originallang=\"en\">Now, it is a little bit counterintuitive, but we've proposed an approach that various stakeholders, including the FCFA, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des communaut\u00e9s francophones et acadienne, have approved of, which is one where you would see francophone immigrants, that is, those whose mother tongue is French or whose first official language is French, immigrate into largely anglophone communities. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3426420\" data-originallang=\"en\">Their ticket to integration, in a way, if I can use that expression, and retention is through employment. So it's important for them to get language instruction, not necessarily always in French, as usually they're quite capable in French, but English language instruction is really important to retaining francophone immigrants in minority francophone communities. That's the counterintuitive part. So a large portion of that $120 million that's for language training is\u2014</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3426418\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si vous me permettez de poursuivre sur la lanc\u00e9e du ministre, monsieur Casey, il importe dans ce cas-ci de bien comprendre une nuance. Il s'agit d'un \u00e9l\u00e9ment que le ministre a abord\u00e9 dans les observations qu'il a faites au premier tour de questions. Il s'agit du fait que, comme Corinne l'a dit, nous mettons davantage l'accent sur l'immigration de la cat\u00e9gorie \u00e9conomique comme base de l'application de la deuxi\u00e8me feuille de route.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3426419\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cela peut sembler un peu paradoxal, mais nous avons propos\u00e9 une approche qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 approuv\u00e9e par diverses parties prenantes, y compris la FCFA, la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des communaut\u00e9s francophones et acadiennes. Selon cette approche, des immigrants francophones, c'est-\u00e0-dire des immigrants dont la langue maternelle est le fran\u00e7ais ou dont la premi\u00e8re langue officielle est le fran\u00e7ais, immigreront dans des communaut\u00e9s en grande majorit\u00e9 anglophone.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3426420\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est l'emploi qui sera l'\u00e9l\u00e9ment essentiel \u00e0 leur \u00e9tablissement et \u00e0 leur int\u00e9gration, si je puis dire. Il est donc tr\u00e8s important que ces immigrants puissent recevoir une formation linguistique, et pas n\u00e9cessairement en fran\u00e7ais, car ils parlent d\u00e9j\u00e0 couramment cette langue, g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement. Il est tr\u00e8s important de fournir de la formation en anglais pour retenir les immigrants francophones dans les communaut\u00e9s francophones en situation minoritaire. C'est l'\u00e9l\u00e9ment paradoxal. Alors une grande partie de ces 120 millions de dollars destin\u00e9s \u00e0 la formation linguistique...</p>"}, "url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/85/peter-sylvester-11/", "politician_url": null, "politician_membership_url": null, "procedural": false, "source_id": "8082307", "document_url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/85/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fofficial-languages%2F41-1%2F85%2F"}}