Official Languages committee  They go to Moncton University, Sainte-Anne University, in Nova Scotia, and to MUN, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, of course.

Official Languages committee  We do have some mechanisms to deal with this shortcoming. For example, we have continuing education, ongoing education. There are many distance learning courses that are becoming more and more accessible. Unfortunately, we do not have any francophone post-secondary institutions h

Official Languages committee  Exactly.

Official Languages committee  I was contemplating exploring the process further when the cuts were announced.

Official Languages committee  I did not really want to get into this.

Official Languages committee  ACOA takes advantage of the fact that we do not have the critical mass to meet the 5% threshold. There is only one French-speaking ACOA officer in our province. The officer in question is a bilingual English-speaking person. When I went to meet with officials at the Moncton headq

Official Languages committee  In some areas, in some departments, such as Canadian Heritage and Service Canada, we are lucky to have two French speaking program officers, not just bilingual but francophone, working here in the province. There is also the RCMP, Citizenship and Immigration. I am trying to go ov

Official Languages committee  You referred earlier to the FCFA document that talks about education levels, francophone populations, etc. I simply want to clarify that. We are finishing up a community profile on the Port-au-Port Peninsula. We are applying the old saying “Know thyself.” We are currently doing a

Official Languages committee  The statistics on the mobility of population are correct. I will have more data on that because we are currently doing community profiles for each of our francophone regions. Earlier you mentioned 50%. I have heard that it is higher in some regions but I believe the whole populat

Official Languages committee  It would be remiss of me to appear before the Standing Committee on Official Languages without bringing up Bill S-3. Earlier, we were discussing the importance of the Court Challenges Program. I am only going to make a brief aside, because I am glad that monsieur Godin raised t

Official Languages committee  I did not even mention the francophone portal, which was the last project to be approved. We will deal with it next time.

Official Languages committee  I am talking about Gros-Morne. It is a national park.

Official Languages committee  Thank you. That's very nice of you. As I was saying before, the idea is to reflect the vitality of the community. In this case, there were artists and craftspeople exhibiting their work, but it was also about selling products and services. As was mentioned earlier, it's a websit

Official Languages committee  When I first started as RDÉE coordinator, four years ago, a feasibility study on the tourism development potential of the Port-au-Port Peninsula had just been completed. As Cyrilda said before, that is kind of the cradle of francophonie. You had a pretty quick look at St. John's,

Official Languages committee  You've just used up 10 of them.