Official Languages committee  I agree with you, Mr. Williamson. Take me for example. I have sought to preserve my culture my entire life. I left New Brunswick after living there for 50 years. When I arrived in Alberta, my husband and I had to work because we no longer had jobs. We also had to save for our re

Official Languages committee  The Conseil de développement économique de l'Alberta is headquartered in Edmonton, five hours' drive from where we are. In seven years, they have come to see us in Fort McMurray once. I see them when I go to Edmonton for meetings. They too are so swamped that they have neither th

Official Languages committee  If we do not receive that funding, our number of employees will have to be reduced from two to one. Over the past seven years, we have managed to set up a number of programs. We will definitely not be able to keep all those programs and services with only one employee. There is

Official Languages committee  I heard what Mr. Thibault just mentioned. The fact that people like that, people outside Alberta, are continuing to train French speakers and continuing to help French immersion students, allows us to get employees here. For example, because of those trainers, the majority of my

Official Languages committee  There is no lack of work here, but, yes, we have seen a lot of cases like that. A good number of Canadian francophones have difficulty finding a job in Fort McMurray because of a number of factors, including a lack of receptiveness to speakers of French. It is difficult for them.

Official Languages committee  Here in Fort McMurray, since the population increases so quickly, the municipality of Wood Buffalo and the Alberta Government came to an agreement to have the municipality carry out its own censuses in order to follow the development of the community. The province also accepts th

Official Languages committee  It is as though they had sawed a leg off the table. For us, the francophonie is the ACFA. It is the entry portal for francophones who arrive in Fort McMurray. The subsidy for that service for francophones was withdrawn and given to an anglophone agency that has no expertise in t

Official Languages committee  Good morning. My name is Angélina Gionet, and I am the Director of the Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta, Wood Buffalo region, Fort McMurray. I have been working for that organization since January 15, 2007. From 2000 to 2011, the population of Fort McMurray increase