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Official Languages committee  As far as child care is concerned, my youngest is 26 years old, so I'm not exactly aware of everything going on in that area. That said, I know that there are no bilingual child care services in Vermilion. I know that, in the surrounding areas, there are a lot of bilingual comm

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  Yes, we do. Our delivery man is a retiree; he works a few hours or a few days a week. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement that helps us out a lot.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  Only one of our five employees is unilingual anglophone. The others are all francophone. We all speak French at work.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  Yes, and we offer services in French to those who need it. We get a lot of tourists from Quebec driving through Alberta to get to the Rockies. They stop in Vermilion to visit our business, because we provide service in French.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  They're more likely to integrate in English, absolutely. In my 25-year military career, before retiring and starting my own business, I lived in almost every province, and it was quite a challenge forcing my kids to keep speaking French in the community.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  We got a lot of support. We applied for support in the context of many programs. The Conseil de développement économique de l'Alberta guided us in finding as much support as we could. For instance, to help us set up our economuseum, the first in Alberta, the organization helped

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  No. Out of roughly 4,500 people, there are maybe 20 francophone families.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  Yes, that's right.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Godin. There's one tool I find important. We've started the process on some funding applications, and what we noticed is that there are a lot of bureaucratic roadblocks we need to manoeuver around. Francophones in minority language communities don't necessarily g

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  Good morning. My name is Patrick Dupuis and I own a cheese factory in Alberta. We've been in business since 2015. We went through a lot of ups and downs, as everyone did, including the pandemic and the recession and everything else that went along with that. During that time, we

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis

Official Languages committee  Yes, it's 6:21 a.m.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Patrick Dupuis