Federal minister holds consultations at Boréal

Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore was in northern Ontario this week to conduct consultations on official languages.

He held the consultations at Collège Boréal's Timmins and Sudbury campuses Aug. 13-14. More than 60 stakeholders from Francophone and Anglophone communities attended the sessions.

The issues and priorities pertaining to official languages, especially in the fields of education, health, immigration, justice and economic development were addressed within the context of the Roadmap for Canada’s Linguistic Duality 2008-2013.

“Our government has provided us with a great opportunity to express our thoughts and demonstrate the importance of maintaining the funds allocated to official languages, especially for education,” Boréal president Denis Hubert-Dutrisac said in a press release.

“These funds are key to the training of a qualified bilingual workforce, which will actively contribute to the economic development of our communities in the following decades.”