Pavillon Desmarais Building,

55 Laurier Avenue Est/East, DMS 12102, Ottawa

Demo-linguistic Evolution and Immigration in Official-Language Communities: Current and Upcoming courses of Action for Constitutional Language Rights

Agenda

8:30

Registration and Breakfast

9:00

Welcome Speech

9:20

Panel: Constitutional Language Rights and Immigration

 Seech by Graham Fraser

 Speech by Katherine d’Entremont

 Speech by French Services Commissioner of Ontario, François Boileau

10:40

Health Break

11:00

Constitutional Language Rights and Immigration in Manitoba, by Mr. Guy Jourdain, Director at the Manitoba Legal Translation Branch

11:30

The Decline of the English School System in Quebec, by Professor Richard Bourhis of the Université du Québec à Montréal and Professor Pierre Foucher of the University of Ottawa

12:15

Lunch and Networking

1:15

Panel: Immigration Issues in Official-Language Minority Communities

 International Immigration and Official-Language Minority Communities: Challenges and issues for the Canadian Linguistic Duality, by Jean-Pierre Corbeil, Assistant Director and Chief Specialist of the Language Statistics Section in the Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division at Statistics Canada

 The State of Immigration in Francophone and Acadian Communities : Issues and Opportunities, by Marjie Brown, Manager, Immigration of the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada

 Not the Same Story : The Challenge of Supporting Newcomers to Quebec’s English-Speaking Community, by Stephen Thompson, Director of Policy, Research and Public Affairs of Quebec Community Groups Network

2:30

Health Break

2:45

Panel: Services and Tools Available to Newcomers to Better Understand Their Constitutional Language Rights

 Access to justice : When the Citizen Becomes Priority, by Nancy Hayes, Executive Director of the Association des juristes d’expression française de la Nouvelle-Écosse

 Jurisource.ca, CliquezJustice.ca and Legal Information Center : Resources for Newcomers and Access to Services in French, by Andrée-Anne Martel, Acting Executive Director of the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario

 Informing Newcomers of Their Rights, by Fernande Bergeron, Executive Director of the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Alberta

4:00 Closing Remarks