Official Languages committee  The future is worrisome. I almost hesitate to say this, but we've become a victim of our own success. More and more demands are being placed on CLCs. Our communities are looking to them more and more to provide services and resources, especially the CLCs in the regions where serv

Official Languages committee  The demographic in the English community—especially in the school system, because I also have a connection there—has seen a huge decline in the past 25 years, and it's going down. At the CLCs we're working very hard to bring people back to the regions.

Official Languages committee  At the Community Learning Centres we're accountable to everyone. We're accountable to our community partners, the school boards that own the CLCs, our provincial government—we appear in the strategic plan of the Government of Quebec—and Canadian Heritage. Each level wants to know

Official Languages committee  I would suggest that we work as partners. We all work together, each partner here. We all work together. We don't work exclusively with the English community. We can't possibly. When you're an organization in the province, you also have to work with your francophone partners.

Official Languages committee  Certainly, with regard to the community learning centres, while our budgets individually are quite limited, as our presentation indicated and as I think Mr. Aylen referred to, we leverage that into much greater amounts that come into our centres. Our partners, over 350 throughout

Official Languages committee  One of the Canadian senators who visited a CLC while on a recent tour of Quebec commented that CLCs were doing so much with so little. They are bringing resources and vitality to communities scattered over an immense geographic area in English schools that have been on a demograp

Official Languages committee  We have built up our capacity with a team of coordinators who are passionate about their work and are committed to making a difference in their individual communities. Supporting and guiding each CLC is a group of committed stakeholders—community organizations, school boards, gov