Official Languages committee  In my capacity as president of QCGN, I am also the chairperson for Riverside school board on the south shore of Montreal. There are three basic areas that we as the QCGN relate to Bill 86. There is the fundamental question of management and control. In the current context, thro

Official Languages committee  One of the other issues has been mentioned, and I think it's a serious one for both organizations. It's the financial issue. Since 2008 our budgets have been decreased. We're still trying to maintain services to our partners, to our community, and it's becoming harder and harder

Official Languages committee  Personally, I support it very much. As a minority, if I am in front of a judge, I want to be able to speak my own language. I stress that judges must have the capacity to be bilingual. As much as I want to be judged in English in Quebec, I feel just as strongly that francophones

Official Languages committee  I know that in Sherbrooke, they asked— Is it the Quebec games? No, it was the Canada Summer Games that were held in Sherbrooke a couple of years ago. The Eastern Townships English community helped with offering bilingual services to those athletes who attended. I think English-s

Official Languages committee  There is Thetford Mines too, I think.

Official Languages committee  Four years ago, we opened the doors with the Quebec government of the day. I think with the Parti Québécois and the Liberal Party as well, we've been able to open the doors to have a dialogue with the respective MNAs. I think they're starting to understand better our concerns a

Official Languages committee  The anglophone communities in each region have their own particular concerns. For the townshippers, it might have been when the hospital in Sherbrooke gradually became unilingual French. In Quebec City, with the Saint Brigid's hospital there, they've been able to maintain a bilin

Official Languages committee  I was going to say also the Lower North Shore, Blanc-Sablon, Baie-Comeau, toute cette région-là. Each one has its own specific character. There is Rawdon in the Laurentians, and the Huntingdon-Howick area.

Official Languages committee  We were very pleased to hear that the committee is planning to visit English and French official language minority communities. In 2010-2011, your colleagues in the Senate conducted a study on the vitality of English-speaking Quebec that included an extensive visit to our commun

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. The Quebec Community Groups Network, or QCGN, is a not-for-profit representative organization that acts as a centre of evidence-based expertise and collective action on the strategic issues affecti