Human Resources committee  It is a big issue. We have what we call early childhood, la petite enfance. We do a lot of work with that, because research has shown us, and it's well documented, that it is a time to learn languages. The best time is before you go to primary school, so we put a lot of effort th

Human Resources committee  We want a strategy for action such as the one mentioned by the Canadian Council on Learning. If we get sufficient funding to do the work we need to do, we would cooperate with that kind of strategy. Currently, we are only meeting 1% of the needs of francophones who need service

Human Resources committee  We have 400 groups. So, surely, among those 400 groups, there are some young people who come to help us, and therefore who are hired for a short period of time. Our funding is uncertain, and it is project-based. So there is a beginning and an end. Often, we need to use people who

Human Resources committee  We work in the area of adult education, so we work with individuals after they interrupt their education; either they dropped out of high school, or are employed and need training. Earlier, we were asked whether post-secondary education funding would be sufficient to solve it a

Human Resources committee  Thank you for your question. The cuts have had an impact, there's no doubt about it. A number of our members have not been able to provide or to continue to provide their services to learners. Above all, project approval has been delayed, which has also hurt. We are slightly mor

Human Resources committee  Thank you, sir. The Fédération canadienne pour l'alphabétisation en français would like to thank you for inviting us. We would like to contribute our views to this consultation on employability. We thus hope to be a voice for the less literate, those whose labour market particip

Official Languages committee  I have only been with the federation for a month. It is the people behind me who have all the information. I am currently doing my homework. I can tell you however that there are many places from which we are awaiting responses. Not very many people received the applications. Th

Official Languages committee  I am the Director General of the Fédération canadienne pour l'alphabétisation en français.

Official Languages committee  The federation submits projects. The federation's great challenge is to live with projects that often last only a year, hence the fits and starts we were speaking about earlier. The provinces or the regions; it's the same thing.

Official Languages committee  I will reply quickly.

Official Languages committee  Not necessarily with us. It's with the regions, with the people in the province.

Official Languages committee  That's right. People are waiting all over the place.

Official Languages committee  And in the meantime, there have been closings. That's correct.

Official Languages committee  The federation has been working for a year now to prepare literacy upgrading plans. We have plans for each province and territory that include the costs and the needs. We have thus done our work. We have plans. We can present them, explain them and discuss them in order to put in

Official Languages committee  The federation is prepared to work with others to find literacy solutions and tools. Needless to say, French-language centres, spaces and schools are needed. I support Ms. Beaulieu's comments when she said that without places where you can speak French, there will never be a fran