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Official Languages committee Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Official Languages. The Quebec English School Boards Association welcomes this opportunity to engage in an important discussion with you on the contributions, concerns, and expectations that characterize Canada's othe
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee Let's talk about our expectations. Our first expectation is that the concern we just voiced will prove unfounded, and a future road map will be developed, embraced, funded, and enforced by this government, securing the place of future ententes, and moving forward from the end o
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee I can't tell you if we're getting every bit of it that reaches our schools. That's what I'm telling you. David.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee Perhaps I'll speak and my colleagues will join me. You're quite right. My experience and education go back to 1967, when I first became a teacher. I must tell you, I was an associate deputy minister and also saw some of the spending of this money. Years ago, my elected minister
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee Certainly the whole area of special education is depleting our reserves. We have more and more needs in our schools in terms of psycho-educators, psychologists, and behaviourists to help out in the classroom at the resource level. We don't have to worry about class size in the o
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee You'll notice that having children is being put off to a later date. Childbirth is not a number one priority for young married couples or couples that get together. Certainly the language issue is a big challenge for us to produce bilingual graduates, and it takes a lot of mone
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee Mr. Chairman, yes, we do want the program to continue.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee Oh, sorry.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee Let me start by saying that I was one who didn't want that, because we offered French and English education in a Protestant milieu. All those who said they were Protestant got through the door. So we had a 50-50 system of French schools and English schools, and I loved it. On t
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee We live with that.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee It's a sad indictment of the anglophone community that it's gotten off its butt and tried to learn to speak French, not just to speak French but to function in French.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee I was talking about automatism.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee Social harmony in Quebec depends on our ability to make our students bilingual, and this will always be the case. We must never stop trying.
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee People who react naturally in one language or the other develop patterns of speech. It's not a search for their words or—
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust
Official Languages committee There is no differential funding for us to teach more than the core French second language program. That is not enough for our parents. They are at our doors all the time. They are always after us. They regularly rattle the cage. They want more for their children. They don't wa
April 3rd, 2012Committee meeting
David D'Aoust