Hon. Maria Chaput:

Honourable senators, my question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate. On August 11, 2010, the Minister of Industry reintroduced into the 2011 census — in other words, the mandatory short-form census — two other questions on official languages. We now have three questions on Canada's official languages that will be asked in the next census.

I want to thank the Leader of the Government in the Senate because these three questions included in the census now add and respond to the objectives of the Official Languages Act and respect that act.

I nonetheless have a question for the leader: how will the government proceed to analyze the information collected? We have both a mandatory short-form census and a longer voluntary survey. How will the required information be analyzed and how will it be distributed? Will we only distribute the information collected in the census or the survey or both? How will the data be analyzed and distributed?

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