Traduction de «Conseil consultatif de la minorité linguistique » (Français → Anglais) :

set up, at the earliest opportunity, an Advisory Board (the “EILC Advisory Board”) composed of a representative of each Member State and one representative of the Council of Europe, whose mandate shall be to advise the Commission on technical matters, such as: the specification of the tender for the creation of the testing instruments; the assessment of the work of the contractor; the appropriate arrangements, standards and technical protocols for data-gathering activities in the Member States, taking into consideration the need to prevent undue administrative and financial burdens for the Member States; in order to assist Member St ...[+++]ates to define the organisational and resource implications for them, give this Board the initial task of bringing forward a timetable for the work and a more detailed description of the construction and administration of the tests, including: sample size; preferred testing method, and preferred arrangements for administering the tests, taking the possibilities of e-testing into account; the minimum sample size that should determine whether a test for a particular language shall be made available to Member States; report back in writing to the Council by the end of 2006 on the progress of work and, if appropriate, on any issues outstanding;

As a result of their reports, we had some meetings during this past summer led by Hubert Gauthier, a member of the governing council of CIHR, who was a co-chair of the consultative committee looking at the needs of francophone linguistic minority communities.

67. Is critical of the fact that Council of Europe texts on ethnic groups and minorities (the Framework Convention and Minority Languages Charter) have still to be ratified by almost all EU Member States and that Parliament's call (Maij-Weggen/Dury report) for active support for linguistic minorities in the EU has not yet been taken up by the Council, the IGC or the Member States, so that the rights of ethnic and linguistic minorities living in many Member States remain unprotected or are protected only at regional or national level;

In its latest report on the language situation in the federal Public Service, Treasury Board said that in Quebec, to serve a minority group that represents 10 per cent of the population, the federal government had an establishment that was of 52.7 per cent bilingual, or 15,945 positions out of a total of 30,234.

Waheed Khan, Member of the Visible Minority Advisory Committee at Environment Canada, National Council of Visible Minorities in the Federal Public Service (NCVM): At Environment Canada, we have founded an advisory committee of employment equity groups, and visible minorities are part of that.

The amendments proposed by the hon. member opposite can be summarized as follows: to directly impose on Air Canada's subsidiaries the provisions of the Official Languages Act on the language of work, part V, and the representation of linguistic minorities. part VI; to create for Air Canada and the subsidiaries that it controls a requirement to submit reports to the Treasury Board regarding their employee population; to allow the Commissioner of Official Languages to investigate complaints relating to delays in complying with part VI in the case of subsidiaries controlled by Air Canada; to impose on the governor in ...[+++]council an obligation to consult the linguistic group adversely affected before making a decision regarding the measures to be taken if a subsidiary controlled by Air Canada fails to comply with part VI; to require Air Canada to make available certain documents in both official languages, one year after the coming into force of the act.