Yes. I believe that health care, and especially health care services provided in French at the community level, are important issues. They affect people who live in minority language situations.
Over the summer, I became involved with several projects at the Cité collégiale, which works in collaboration with the Université Sainte-Anne. I met with the president of the Collège Boréal, an institution which is located in northern Ontario. When the committee travelled during the last session, we visited post-secondary institutions. Some of these offered services in French. These are institutions in a minority situation. Others, mostly anglophone institutions, offered or would like to offer education services in French. I believe that the University of Ottawa has just published a report on its bilingual services. It's an important subject for me. We are greatly concerned with educating young French-speakers, especially in our minority language communities, and it is also a concern for the people living in those communities. This is why the Cité collégiale has just launched an advanced program for paramedics. Graduates of this program will find jobs in my riding. So there is a direct connection between post-secondary programs offered in French and minority language communities.
This is important for me and I also think it is for our committee. Mr. Chong also raised this matter during the first session.
I would therefore like to present the following motion:
That the Standing Committee on Official Languages study the role of post-secondary institutions in the promotion of linguistic duality and the teaching of official languages.