Hon. Elinor Caplan (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Lib.): With regard to each of the groups consulted by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration during the period from February 27, 1998 through to March 11, 1998, the following received contribution funds (Citizenship and Immigration Canada, CIC, does not provide grants or subsidies to organizations) in fiscal year 1997-98* under one or more of CIC's settlement programs or services: Immigrant settlement and Adaptation Program, ISAP, which provides a variety of settlement services to immigrants, such as orientation, community information, ...[+++]interpretation/translation, para-professional counseling, employment-related services; Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada, LINC, which provides training in one of Canada's official languages to adult immigrants; the Host Program which matches immigrants to Canadians who help them with various aspects of life in Canada; and Reception House, RH, which provides temporary accomodation to government assisted refugees.

Among the 34 projects supported by ACOA under the EDI, some are worthy of particular note: New Brunswick Translation Inc., a project to assist small and medium-sized businesses with the costs for translation of their business marketing tools; the " Pays de la Sagouine" tourism site, a project that enabled an English-language translation of an already successful French-language play, resulting in attracting a significant number of anglophone visitors to the site; the Conseil provincial des sociétés culturelles, a project involving an electronic ticket vending system, with revenues accruing to the cultural organizations represented by t ...[+++]he vendor; and the Atlantic Canada Acadian Tourism Commission, two projects which involved the development of experiential tourism activities in five Acadian tourism venues in Atlantic Canada and the coordination of activities in each of these regions.

develop practical cooperation among Member States on asylum, by facilitating exchange of information on countries of origin, by providing Member States with support for translation and interpretation, training of asylum officials and assisting in the relocation of recognised refugees.

The draftswoman not only does not underestimate the importance of interpreting and translation services as vehicles for a range of forms of dialogue with the public, but also supports their enhancement, so as to reduce the time needed by individual Members to access the documents, with a view to improving all the procedures; however, she also calls on the Ombudsman to diversify his sources of translation by opting for the most economical – such as the Translation Centre and freelance translators – and also to improve their contractua ...[+++]l performance in terms of speed and the effectiveness of what is produced.

[English] Mrs. Hayes: Mr. Speaker, certainly as a Reformer and as a supporter of the accountability of programs being in the hands of those closest to the people who have to put the programs in place, I support the premise that the control of programs and decisions that are made be as close to the people as possible.

In the medium term, the Translation Bureau is suggesting — this is really what we support — that we create a parliamentary interpretation training program through a partnership with the Senate, the Translation Bureau and Nunavut Arctic College.