Official Languages committee  There is the Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique, which may have been here this morning

Official Languages committee  It mobilizes many organizations, including ours, around certain issues. So there are meetings of presidents, and observers can attend. We have a summit twice a year. Yes, it's structured. You talked about provincial issues, and British Columbia is the only province in Canada tha

Official Languages committee  We become masters in curriculum development to avoid university senates. Your remark is relevant. I'll take a concrete example: criminology courses in French. Simon Fraser University has a criminology program in English. We add the letters "fr" to existing courses, but we still

Official Languages committee  The post-secondary situation is the same. Tomorrow, we are having French Fête at Simon Fraser University, as part of the Printemps de la francophonie program. As you know, the Rendez-vous de la francophonie is held in March. Even though I am in a post-secondary educational insti

Official Languages committee  Mr. Choquette, I spoke about the quality of teachers, but there is also a problem in terms of the program. British Columbia doesn't have a standardized program for core French instruction. There are huge variations from one school to the next and from one school board to the next

Official Languages committee  That is the answer. It's a quality problem, a problem of confidence in their language skills, as Mr. Lewis was saying. It's a problem related to the quality of the French these teachers have. In Canada, 75% of core French teachers say they are confident in their language abilit

Official Languages committee  You raise a very good point, a major problem that reveals your experience in this matter: the accountability of the provinces toward the amounts they receive from the federal government. I'm not prepared to say that the federal investments are yielding no return, but you are righ

Official Languages committee  You turned out well.

Official Languages committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. Before I start my five-minute speech, I would like to thank the members of the committee for travelling here to the Franco-Columbian francophonie. I would also like to greet the Clerk of the Committee. We were at the University of Ottawa together a long