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May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee We made our dissatisfaction with the exam clear right from the beginning.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee You can talk to our governments.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee Yes, you can enforce the act and give francophones the same opportunities as anglophones.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee In fact, we did it previously as well, right from the beginning.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee Quebec has its own exam.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee This year there were 22 students in Edmundston.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee That's correct.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee For Edmundston, which is a very francophone region, it would mean no longer having a nursing campus or training program. Since most of our students are not functionally bilingual, it isn't realistic to think that they would just go to another university. Of course, they could all go to Moncton, but enrolment in those programs is also limited.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee It doesn't at all guarantee that they will pass. In our region, in northwest New Brunswick, students don't even have the option of taking the exam in English because they aren't sufficiently bilingual that it would boost their chances of passing. I know that, last summer, two of our students wrote the exam in English and passed, but they were native anglophones, so they were comfortable in English.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee We can have them translated and adapted. I would like to mention that prior to this, with AIIC we had no problem regarding French-language resources.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks
Official Languages committee It is because we gave permission to an entirely different company located outside of Canada to sell us its exam.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Suzie Durocher-Hendriks