Translation of "Langue d'arrivee " (French → English) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 435 Mr. Sean Casey: With regard to translation services: (a) how many contracts were entered into since January 1, 2011, for translation from a non-official language into an official language by (i) the Privy Council Office, (ii) the Prime Minister’s Office, (iii) the Office of the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, (iv) the Office of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, (v) the Department of Citizenship and Immigration; and (b) for each contract, what was the (i) cost, (ii) duration, (iii) scope, (iv) translation service provider, (v) source language, (vi) target language?

(Return tabled) Question No. 865 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to cuts in government funding to newcomer settlement organizations: (a) how does this policy reflect Canada’s commitment to cultural diversity; (b) what, if any, needs assessments of newcomers to Canada have been undertaken over the last five years, if none were undertaken, why not, and of those undertaken, (i) when were they undertaken, (ii) by whom, (iii) what were the results, (iv) what were the chief recommendations; (c) what was the detailed process undertaken to examine funding of newcomer settlement programs, which led to the government's cuts; (d) over the past five years, how much money did the government promise to invest in newcomer settlement services, by provin ...[+++]ce and territory, and what amount was actually invested in newcomer settlement services, by province and territory; (e) how was the decision to cut $53 million from newcomer settlement organizations made, (i) what were all the procedural steps in the decision-making process, (ii) what stakeholders were consulted, (iii) which departments were involved in the decision-making process, (iv) what formulas were used, (v) how was it determined that 85 percent of the cuts were necessary in Ontario; (f) what percentage of the Ontario cuts to newcomer settlement organizations were made in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA); (g) how many newcomers arrived in Canada in each of the last five years, (i) how many newcomers arrived in each of the provinces and territories, (ii) how many people settled in each of the provinces, (iii) how many people settled in each of Canada’s ten largest cities; (h) what information does the government have regarding the movement of newcomers from one province to another or from one city to another in the newcomers' first three years after arrival in Canada; (i) from which countries did the newcomers arrive in each of the last five years and, for each country identified, (i) what are the official languages spoke ...

I am asking His Honour to study, with his usual wisdom, whether Senator Watt today was exercising his ancient and Aboriginal right as a member of the Senate to speak his living language — not a dead language like Greek or Latin and not an acquired language like English or French, but the language with which he can best serve the cause of his people and which has been spoken in Canada well before the arrival of the first Europeans — and whether the Senate must oblige and provide interpretation of Inuktitut in Canada's two official lang ...[+++]uages.

The aim is to safeguard multi-lingualism by ensuring that costs are kept under control despite the foreseen arrival of up to ten new languages as of 2004.

Among the factors (apart from being a relatively new channel) which have prevented SIC from achieving compliance with these principles during the reporting period, particular mention should be made of the restricted nature of the national advertising market and the fragility of the national production industry, which does not allow the placing on national channels of works in Portuguese specially designed to attract viewers under competitive conditions similar to those for works produced in Brazil.

National integration programmes are dominant in those countries where the main immigration tends to be primarily of a family reunification or of a humanitarian nature and where new immigrants consequently do not have a job offer before entering the country and rarely speak the language of the host society upon arrival.