Madam Chair, the Faculté Saint-Jean is at the heart of Edmonton Strathcona's vibrant French-speaking community.
Established in 1908, the Faculté Saint-Jean became a campus of the University of Alberta in 1977. It is the only francophone campus in all of Alberta and serves a vital role in attracting people to our province and in protecting and preserving the French language and the Francophonie.
The faculty's existence is in jeopardy because of the province's numerous cuts to post-secondary education. The federal government made official languages commitments to French-speaking communities.
We need to do more to support the Faculté Saint-Jean and to preserve Alberta's only French-speaking post-secondary institution.