Official Languages committee  I have two points to make briefly. First, I think we need more content that comes from here, from Manitoba or the West, that represents our accents and our way of speaking. I also think that the accent and speech patterns of young francophones and young people learning French as

Official Languages committee  As I mentioned, this is Language Security 101. The earlier you start speaking French, the more confident you will be later. Yes, we must provide opportunities to speak French at a very early age, but later as well. French must not be just spoken at school. Even if children begin

Official Languages committee  In Manitoba, there’s a good program called “French for Life. There are also posters all over town, on the buses and on benches. I feel that there has been a great change over the last 20 years. French is promoted to everyone as a living language. It is being done not only to the

Official Languages committee  In my case, my parents enrolled me in an immersion school simply because, at home, in our community, the school that offered that program was seen as a good school. So that's how it started, without my being involved and almost by chance. When I was in elementary school, everyon

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much for today's invitation. I'm going to speak about my own experience. I learned French in an immersion program, and I was for some time, in high school, in a French-language school as a non-rights holder. I did my post-secondary studies in English. I never had