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Official Languages committee Yes, absolutely. We were just talking about promotion. Our website is another national and international window and it shows what we have to offer in terms of education in French in Canada.
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Ms. Ashton, if I may, I'd like to add something. When we talk about a shortage of school staff, even in early childhood centres, you're absolutely right: We're truly experiencing that to a great extent right now. We need to speed up the process for recognizing teacher and early
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee I would add that we need to ensure that Canadian embassies, high commissions and consular services abroad are aware of the French-language school network, both for staff recruitment and student enrolment. People come to Canada thinking there's only one system, and yet we have 29
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Thank you for the question, Mrs. Goodridge. At the moment, the Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones is working closely with its English-language counterpart, the Canadian School Boards Association, to better understand this shortage of teachers, both in the F
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Yes, absolutely. Now that the action plan for official languages has been announced with its education component, the official languages in education program, we have a one-year transition period so that the provinces and territories can reach bilateral agreements with the feder
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee It’s been very well received. It’s a phenomenal gain. The difficulty currently is obtaining information from the Department of Public Works and Government Services in real time, but that’s more of a bureaucracy issue. Learning in real time when federal properties become available
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Certainly. As far as recognition of professional skills is concerned, the idea of creating a table with the professional bodies for accelerated recognition of prior learning has been put forward. That would certainly be a step in the right direction. I can point to another prop
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Let’s just say that the formula set by the Canadian Embassy in France is as follows. Until recently, there were two-day fairs in Paris. People came to the fair, mostly from within France, but there were also people from out of town and from neighbouring countries. Then it was on
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee I would add two nuances to your question. First of all, I was mainly thinking of human resources management services within Canada that support the selected candidate. Interviews are often conducted virtually. Once the candidate has been chosen, made an offer and accepted it, th
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee I think that Francophone immigration is affected by default, since the students are already attending our schools. I believe that the government’s true intention was laudable, wanting to ensure that there would be no interruption of services. However, that’s not what we’re seeing
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Thank you for the question. It should be noted that core funding is provided by provinces and territories. That remains the same; there are no changes in that regard. What we’re talking about are additional costs associated with educating children, which are funded by the fede
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee I believe there’s a growing awareness, yes. Could that translate into higher dividends? It certainly does. A few years ago, we tried to establish a dialogue with professional bodies, which differ from province to province. It’s vitally important for qualified teachers to know wh
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee When we looked at the figures, we realized that there had been an erosion in the amounts paid out, due to the increase in school enrolments. Since 2009, we've seen a steady growth in the number of enrolments in our schools. So we have more students in our schools and the cost of
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Through the Statistics Canada census, we learned that we have roughly two-thirds of the children of rightful claimants in our schools. So there's a third that we're missing out on, and there are nearly 600,000 students who are eligible.
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand
Official Languages committee Excuse me, but I didn't quite catch your question because of the poor sound quality.
September 25th, 2023Committee meeting
Valérie Morand