Traduction de «Tips for Maintaining your New Language Skills » (Anglais → Français) :

Also in your opening remarks you talked about changes to the new federal skilled worker points grid program, which focuses on language proficiency and youth—bringing in more younger people to Canada.

The obvious advantage is that most part-time students are working; you're maintaining your workforce as it exists, rather than people leaving the workforce to obtain new skills and going back again.

In the Canadian context, languages are very different from any other job skill—once you have hired a person with French as a second or foreign language, or have initially trained your staff to learn that language, you need to continually train them so that they can maintain that skill—which we ...[+++] do.

Before I conclude my presentation and take your questions, I would like to propose four recommendations for the report that results from your study: first, that there be a concerted and coordinated approach on an interdepartmental and intergovernmental basis regarding francophone immigration; second, that francophone minority communities be consulted regarding the changes to the immigration system, including those already in place and those that are still to come, with a view to ...[+++]maintaining an approach designed by and for the communities; third, ensure that the new tools and mechanisms include some specific measures and targeted initiatives for francophone immigration; and lastly, ensure that measures targeted towards immigration within our communities are put in place, including for example access to language training, assessing language skills and recognizing qualifications.