The Association canadienne d’éducation de langue française offers training in every French-language faculty of education, among other things, to promote identity building. We dare believe it helps future teachers become interested in working in French throughout the country. We are also working with the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, which is campaigning more on the union side.
I’d like to take 20 seconds to reiterate our work’s collaborative and creative aspects. One of our bodies, the strategic orientation committee, includes people from all over the country. At that table, we have 13 ministries of education; those from the three territories and the 10 provinces are represented. This is real cross-Canada representation. Once they’re in the room, there are no more titles; everyone works together. We talk about what we like and what we want. For someone coming from the outside, it would be very hard for them to tell who comes from a department, who comes from a university and who is a parent for whom French-language education is important.