Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3), we are conducting a study on access to early childhood services in the minority language.
Before we move to the study, I would like to take a few moments to pay our sincere respects to Senator Claudette Tardif. We are in Edmonton, her home city. Ms. Tardif is a trailblazer for the francophonie across the country, but particularly in the west. She was a senator in the Senate of Canada for about 13 years. The goal of this meeting is to pay tribute to her.
For approximately 10 years, Ms. Tardif was the president of the Canada-France Interparliamentary Association. Ms. Tardif and the French language are inextricably linked. I absolutely wanted our record to show the esteem in which we hold this great Canadian, through whom the French language shines forth from coast to coast.
Ms. Tardif, may we invite you to say a few words?