Official Languages committee  For the time being, no.

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for the question. I have a clarification to make. What is important to us are training services for early childhood practitioners. If we want to increase the number of places, for example, in daycares, we have to make sure to have qualified personnel. Quali

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for the question. What we've done at the Collège Éducacentre—and we are going to talk about it this afternoon—is put in place a global, integrated model. We noticed that a large part of our clientele was made up of newcomers. We realized it was important to m

Official Languages committee  When the funds are sent is a very important issue. I'd like to discuss two components of the process that are complementary. Bilateral agreements on education last five years and are renewable. We began the renewal process when the last agreement expired on March 31, 2018. We ar

Official Languages committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, honourable MPs and members of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, dear colleagues and participants present. Mr. Chairman, first of all, I would like to thank you for inviting us, on behalf of the board of directors of Educacentre College, of wh

Official Languages committee  If we were masters of our own program, we could charge $4,000 rather than $8,000. That would be an incentive for low-income people. Training is an investment. If you have to invest $16,000 to become qualified as an early childhood educator, and you can only hope to earn $17 or $2

Official Languages committee  I would like to add something. In our presentation, we mentioned that, because we do not currently control the program, we have to require the same registration fees as those charged by the English-speaking programs. About how much does it cost, Ms. Thibault?

Official Languages committee  I would simply like to support what has been said concerning the need to train early childhood educators. It is all well and good to provide more spaces, but if the people who provide the services are not competent, the quality of the language may suffer, and we will not reach t

Official Languages committee  Thank you for the question. If I may, however, I'd like to comment on the question before. We help people re-enter the workforce. Although the bilateral agreements contain language clauses, we have found that their implementation does not support development in the true sense. M

Official Languages committee  As the person in charge of our organization's finances, I'll answer that, if I may. The funding we receive for college training comes exclusively from bilateral education agreements. The province contributes nothing. We are trying to fix that. Your first question is a very impo

Official Languages committee  Collège Éducacentre recognizes that the institutions and organizations that offer French-language services and training in British Columbia are generally underfunded. Colleges are still poor cousins in terms of funding from the province. In order to meet the growing demand for th

Official Languages committee  Thank you. Hello, Mr. Chair, honourable members, dear colleagues, and observers. On behalf of the Educacentre College board of directors, thank you for the invitation. My name is Yvon Laberge and I am the President of Educacentre College. I am pleased to introduce Ms. Isabelle