Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for your invitation to come and speak about the vitality of official language minority communities. The Fédération canadienne pour l'alphabétisation en français believes that literacy is the glue that holds all the parts of a community together

Official Languages committee  At the federation, we can give you an example of two publications that were delivered by Canada Post under this program. We published approximately 300,000 bookmarks as a way of encouraging people to read. This year, for example, the message included an invitation to parents to r

Official Languages committee  There may be several different ways of explaining it. There has not been a specific analysis, but to begin to answer your question, 66% of those who were given the choice of responding in French or in English chose to do so in English. One might have expected, given that the peop

Official Languages committee  Early childhood begins before school, even before primary school. This phase is not part of the formal education structure. It is informal. That is where there is room for the federal government, in partnership, if you will, with the provinces and agencies like ours, to develop p

Official Languages committee  The federation is prepared to work with others to find literacy solutions and tools. Needless to say, French-language centres, spaces and schools are needed. I support Ms. Beaulieu's comments when she said that without places where you can speak French, there will never be a fran

Official Languages committee  The federation has been working for a year now to prepare literacy upgrading plans. We have plans for each province and territory that include the costs and the needs. We have thus done our work. We have plans. We can present them, explain them and discuss them in order to put in

Official Languages committee  I have only been with the federation for a month. It is the people behind me who have all the information. I am currently doing my homework. I can tell you however that there are many places from which we are awaiting responses. Not very many people received the applications. Th

Official Languages committee  I am the Director General of the Fédération canadienne pour l'alphabétisation en français.

Official Languages committee  The federation submits projects. The federation's great challenge is to live with projects that often last only a year, hence the fits and starts we were speaking about earlier. The provinces or the regions; it's the same thing.

Official Languages committee  I will reply quickly.

Official Languages committee  Not necessarily with us. It's with the regions, with the people in the province.

Official Languages committee  That's right. People are waiting all over the place.

Official Languages committee  And in the meantime, there have been closings. That's correct.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, sir. The Fédération canadienne pour l'alphabétisation en français would like to thank you for inviting us. We would like to contribute our views to this consultation on employability. We thus hope to be a voice for the less literate, those whose labour market particip

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your question. The cuts have had an impact, there's no doubt about it. A number of our members have not been able to provide or to continue to provide their services to learners. Above all, project approval has been delayed, which has also hurt. We are slightly mor