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Official Languages committee We even published a document on the subject today.
May 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Indeed, the Quebec Community Groups Network has established a collaboration agreement with the federal government.
May 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee In Quebec the issue is, of course, different. In Quebec it's not an issue of language. Of course English-speaking community individuals want to be served in the language, in English. The notion for Quebec is more along community development and the communities--long-standing comm
May 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee In Quebec, we've begun our first round of talks with the people from Canadian Heritage at the national level. The QCGN and our people in the regions are using a kind of hybrid model right now. With no money put aside for evaluation, our fundamental problem is that we have not ha
May 15th, 2008Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee In my opinion, the three ways of lodging complaints are exactly that: three different ways of proceeding depending on the case, the scope of the complaint and what we want to obtain. In Quebec, the Court Challenges Program was the one that we needed when we used it. The other alt
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee In just a few days we will be publishing a report on English speakers in Montreal. The consultations took months, and they involved groups, individuals and experts. The priority for everyone was employability: the ability to work, not in English, but just to work, given their bil
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee That's right.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee We are incredibly worried. I only want to say that the Quebec Community Groups Network has just gone through a re-mobilization, if you will. We have moved our offices from Quebec City to Montreal. We have increased our staff. The QCGN is worried and has put a lot of resources i
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee I would like to say from the outset that I don't quite agree with you about the number of wealthy people. English-speaking anglophones in Quebec. With the Townshippers in Pontiac, the Coasters on the north shore, dans les Îles de la Madeleine, there are many regional anglopho
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee School closures are a problem. In fact, you probably do not hear about this problem outside Quebec. There are no stories of English schools closing in Toronto, Sudbury, British Columbia or New Brunswick. It is important to know that children must spend hours on a bus in the morni
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee It is certain that anglophones living in Quebec need this program to ensure access to representation.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Absolutely. Abolishing this program does not affect minorities exclusively: it also affects other groups that fight for equality rights.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Absolutely.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Certainly English-speaking Quebeckers have the right to have access to the same services as all Canadians. I think that's what the court challenges program allows us to think about when test cases are brought in front of it. Not all cases will be looked at in the same way under t
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Official Languages committee Absolutely not, given its commitment.
June 12th, 2007Committee meeting
Sylvia Martin-Laforge