Evidence of meeting #125 for Official Languages in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was federal.

On the agenda

Members speaking

Before the committee

Heidi Yetman  President, Canadian Teachers' Federation
Christian Gagnon  President, Ligue d'action nationale
Simon Cloutier  President, Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones
Valérie Morand  Executive Director, Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones

The Chair Liberal René Arseneault

Thank you, Mr. Samson.

As I reminded Mr. Gagnon earlier, if there's any information you think we should hear or read, please send it to us. We would like to have data on rural Canada, for example. I don't want to make you do homework for nothing, but it's important, because we know that francophone communities outside Quebec are mainly in rural areas, in small towns outside the major cities. I'm thinking of Sainte-Anne, south of Winnipeg, for example. If schools are more at risk in those regions than in urban areas, I'd like to have statistics on the subject, for the committee's benefit.

You can send that information to the clerk, who will forward it to all the members.

Thank you very much for being here and for your thoughtful answers.

The meeting is adjourned.