Official Languages committee  Merci. You're going to visit Bishop's this afternoon, and Madam Teasdale will be with you. So she could provide other ideas about this major project to ensure that you get a good understanding of what we are trying to do. This project is an initiative by the university, with t

Official Languages committee  After being invited to attend this committee meeting, I asked people sitting around the table at the university what they knew about the 2003 Official Languages Action Plan. Absolutely nothing! No one even knew about it. That was not exactly the best... Is he talking about Cha

Official Languages committee  No, this used to be the case back in the 1930s, but the two split. Bishop's College School is now a private high school.

Official Languages committee  That is not necessary. We have many people who spend a great deal of time trying to secure grants, bursaries and financial assistance at various levels. In my opinion, it is always good to know that it is possible to obtain money to subsidize certain initiatives, although we have

Official Languages committee  That was it.

Official Languages committee  Bishop's University has the football team.

Official Languages committee  As I said, 45% of our student body are Canadians from outside of Quebec. It's a significant proportion. We get them from everywhere.

Official Languages committee  Since education is a provincial jurisdiction, one has to be quite creative to get access to these funds. One has to create the mechanisms of partnership with other organizations with which we are providing a needed service and that can access the support money. So to some degree,

Official Languages committee  Primarily it would be to attract and retain good employees. Employers need to have confidence that the infrastructure in the community in which their business is set up has the capacity to attract potential employees to come to the region. They need to be confident that the regio

Official Languages committee  Bonjour. I'm Dr. Jonathan Rittenhouse, vice-principal of Bishop's University. As a general preamble to what I'm going to say, I would say that Bishop's has felt no direct impact from the operations of the 2003 action plan. We've felt none whatsoever. Therefore, our brief could