Official Languages committee  Culture isn't my field, but you've probably heard of the 2004 World Acadian Congress. Perhaps you know Grand Dérangement, Blou, La Baie en Joie, visual artists like Denise Comeau and many others in the province. I know there's an association of artists in all disciplines in Nova

Official Languages committee  Our plan is to implement programs. That's why I referred to creativity. We won't have a faculty of medicine in our province. How do we go about ensuring that our young people can study medicine in French and then come back home? The organization of practicums is also important

Official Languages committee  Nurse practitioners are increasingly being recognized in Nova Scotia. I know that 23 nurses are currently doing their master's degrees at Arthabaska University in order to become nurse practitioners. There are some Francophones among those 23 nurses. Others want to register for t

Official Languages committee  In fact, we can't break out of the training triangle: there are networks, there's the department, and there's training. Not one of them can work without the others.

Official Languages committee  We have an excellent collaborative relationship with the Department of Health. I think I can say that it's more than a collaboration. The network is having major success because it automatically includes the Department of Health. When network members have discussions, the departm

Official Languages committee  Over the long term?

Official Languages committee  As Paul said earlier, I'm now a full-time volunteer, but a week and a half ago, I had a job. I was Director of the Health Professions Department at Université Sainte-Anne. I'll answer your question somewhat in that capacity. There's the program for paramedic-ambulance attendants

Official Languages committee  It's a new act that was passed two years ago. It concerns French-language services in all the departments, not just Health. The community has been involved in introducing the regulations. There was a lot of consultation at first. The health field has been defined as one of the pr

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely. You're probably talking about Denis Fortier...

Official Languages committee  Whom I know well. In fact, that's a model that we're constantly monitoring. In the region where I live, we're planning a health centre, and we're studying the entire question of French-language services. That's very much a question of recruitment and retention.

Official Languages committee  That will probably come in a second phase. We're currently at such a basic level of service that we're only considering primary services. With the regulations that are in place and the three-year plan to introduce the regulations, we're clearly headed toward a second stage; at th

Official Languages committee  Through the CNFS, we're now starting to have things in place. We have institutions. There is the Université Sainte-Anne in the province. Even at the college level, we've managed to put certain programs in place, including a paramedic-ambulance care program. In the past four years

Official Languages committee  Those two are now in place. We're currently negotiating the bachelor of nursing degree with the University of Moncton. We'll obviously have to wait a year or two until it's in place, but we hope to be able to train nurses in Nova Scotia and thus to retain some professionals.

Official Languages committee  There's no French-language health centre in Halifax. Currently, access to health services in French in Halifax is entirely a matter of chance. That's why the professional directory has become very important for us. We're starting to locate professionals. We found a certain number

Official Languages committee  Yes.