Official Languages committee  It may be a post-secondary program.

Official Languages committee  Then that's not my area of expertise.

Official Languages committee  I would like to say to Ms. Boucher that of course parents are happy to receive the money that they get. But the problem is the lack of infrastructure. Francophone daycare centres just don't exist. There is one in Edmonton, but I don't know if there are any elsewhere. We need help

Official Languages committee  I should also point out that junior kindergartens are located in the schools. So a child enrolled in junior kindergarten continues his or her education at that same school. But it would be ideal indeed to have the system you're referring to. However, our mandate isn't funded by t

Official Languages committee  I would like to make a comment.

Official Languages committee  La Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires undertook an initiative in this sense. All the minority school boards in Canada got together to do a study. They tried to find out why they were missing the boat and to define their needs. They decided that they had to launch a natio

Official Languages committee  We receive a bit of money through the official languages program. We use these funds for promotion and for recruiting and retaining our students. In fact, it is difficult for us to keep our students. In many cases, they only stay until grade six. Quite a few families are mixed ma

Official Languages committee  In some schools, we tried to set up childcare centres, but we did not have the necessary funds. Volunteer parents and other parents began the project, but it was too complicated, because among other things, the childcare centre was closed on professional development days and on c

Official Languages committee  Could I add a quick comment?

Official Languages committee  It comes back a bit to what the honourable Raymond Simard was saying earlier. In terms of infrastructure, we have a huge deficit as compared to English-language school boards. A number of our schools are in temporary facilities. We have portable classrooms. There is no comparis

Official Languages committee  Definitely not.

Official Languages committee  According to my documents, I can tell you that this year in our schools, many of our immigrants came from Ontario and New Brunswick.

Official Languages committee  With respect to immigrants from abroad, the majority come from francophone Africa.

Official Languages committee  Firstly, our greatest achievement was the establishment of the francophone school board not too long ago. That was a major challenge, partly because we have to convince people to come to our area and work there. I wish to point out that francophones won control over their own sch

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Firstly, I would like to thank you for your invitation and this opportunity to speak to you. The Greater North Central, which now serves 2,323 students, was founded in 1994 following the Mahé decision, which handed over management of the schoo