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Outputs of the Regional Coordinators
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Alberta Regional Office (Edmonton)
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Between April 2002 and March 2003, the Alberta Regional
Coordinator has been involved in the following activities to promote Official
Languages minorities:
- Participation in the 2002 Interministerial/Francophone
community meeting, involving Alberta offices of various federal departments,
agencies and Crown corporations and Alberta Francophone organizations;
- Attendance at and participation in meetings with Canadian
Heritage, respecting implementation of the Department's responsibilities
under the Official Languages Act;
- Promotion of, and attendance at, official 2003 Francophonie
Day celebrations. Meeting with representatives of various Alberta Francophone
organizations at the 2003 Francophonie Day celebrations.
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Richard Keswick
Regional Coordinator
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Holly Turner
Regional Director
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Atlantic Regional Offices
(Newfoundland, P.-E.-I., Nova Scotia, New Brunswick)
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Outreach and Liaison
- Francophone and Acadian media were used across the
region to communicate information in French regarding the National Crime
Prevention Strategy (NCPS).
- The capacity of the Department to interact in French
with francophone and Acadian community organizations was increased with
the hiring of a new bilingual employee by the NCPS in Newfoundland.
- NCPC representatives attended the following meetings
to increase their knowledge of priorities and challenges of official
language minority communities: The annual meeting of la Fédération
des francophones de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador and the Strategic Planing
Session of the francophones de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
- In collaboration with the Government of New Brunswick,
the NCPC assisted organizers of the 16th Annual Atlantic Crime Prevention
Conference in Fredericton the promote and to implement a bilingual event
with materials and workshops available in both official languages.
- NCPC representatives met with the following groups
and individuals and provided information on the National Crime Prevention
Strategy: la Fédération des parents francophones de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador;
chairperson of the Comité d'orientation aux affaires francophones
in Newfoundland and Labrador; and, la Fédération acadienne
de la Nouvelle-Écosse. In addition, an informal discussion introducing
the National Strategy was held with the Atlantic regional representative
of the Commissioner of Official Languages.
- Support for Community Development
- During the year, 10 new projects were approved for
francophone and Acadian communities in New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island under the Community Mobilization Program (CMP). In Nova Scotia
and Prince Edward Island, francophone and Acadian groups started the
second year of multi year project funding approved under the Crime Prevention
Partnership and Strategic Funds. In addition, 7 projects in New Brunswick
and Prince Edward Island were approved under CMP in 2002-2003 including
a francophone / Acadian outreach component. A summary of all projects
approved under the National Crime Prevention Strategy for official language
minority communities can be found in Annex C.
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Jane Rutherford
Regional Coordinator
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Ted Tax
Senior Regional Director
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Vancouver Regional Office
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In the fall of 2002, the regional office joined the Interdepartmental
committee on section 41-42 of the OLA and attended the monthly
meetings with representatives of the francophone community. With National
Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC), we also worked with the francophone community
to ensure that they are aware of available funding for them in the field
of crime prevention and community mobilization. We also had a meeting
with La Boussole, a local program designed to assist young francophones
who are in Vancouver and need assistance, for the purpose of exploring
possible funding from NCPC. Finally we initiated contacts with L'Association
des juristes d'expression française de C.-B. in order to see
how we can best assist them in the development of their goals and objectives.
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Pierre Rousseau
Regional Coordinator
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Barbara Burns
Senior Regional Director
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Quebec Regional Office
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Liaison with regional and national program officers from
the Department of Justice.
- The regional co-ordinator co-operates very actively
with the team at the National Crime Prevention Centre, Quebec Region,
to encourage links among the different national programs and those administered
in the regions in order to ensure that there is a real presence in the
Anglophone community.
- Meetings are planned with Anglophone community groups
in Quebec and representatives of the NCPC.
Liaison with regional officers of Canadian Heritage
- Contacts have been made with the person responsible
for the Canadian Heritage programs for the linguistic minorities in
Quebec and co-operation is ensured between the Department of Justice
and Canadian Heritage on the subject of the linguistic minorities in
Quebec.
- An interdepartmental meeting is scheduled with Anglophone
groups in Quebec interested in the different federal programs.
Liaison with Headquarters
- The regional co-ordinator attended the meeting of the
group responsible for the strategic planning of the implementation of
section 41 of the Official Languages Act (OLA) held in Ottawa
in November 2002.
- The regional co-ordinator participates in the network
of regional co-ordinators of the implementation of section 41 of the
OLA.
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Lise Bertrand
Regional Coordinator
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Johanne D'Auray
Senior Regional Director
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Saskatoon Regional Office
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Outreach and Liaison
During the months of February and March, several meetings
took place with the French-speaking groups to provide information on the
CMP - a component of the NCPC.
- Meeting with the liaison officer of the Office of the
Commissioner of Official Languages in Regina, René Boudreau,
to begin a dialogue and to introduce Dianne MacDonald, NCPC regional
manager for Saskatchewan.
- Meeting with the National Crime Prevention group, introducing
the Community Mobilization Program (CMP) to the director general of
the Assemblée communautaire fransaskoise, Denis Desgagné,
and some of his staff in Regina.
- Departement of Justice provided a presentation to the
Official Languages committee under Canadian Heritage.
- Attended the Association des juristes d'expression
française de la Saskatchewan banquet in Saskatoon - liaison with
the juristes.
- Co-presenting the CMP at intra-provincial meeting in
Regina which represents the French provincial associations.
- Co-presenting the CMP at the inter-regional south meeting
in Regina which represents the French regional associations in the south
part of Saskatchewan.
- Co-presenting the CMP at the inter-regional north meeting
in Domremy which represent the French regional associations in the north
part of Saskatchewan.
- Organize a presentation by the NCPC on Program Development
and Delivery to Official Languages committee under Canadian Heritage
in Regina.
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Regional Coordinator
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Pamela Clark
Regional Director
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Winnipeg Regional Office
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Cynthia Myslicki was appointed co-ordinator for Manitoba
on November 29, 2002. She is counsel with the Department of Justice in
Winnipeg and has been a member of the Association des juristes d'expression
française du Manitoba for several years and informed the Association
about her role and mandate in January 2003. She took part in telephone
conference calls with the national network of co-ordinators. In January
2003, she made initial contact with the program officer and program manager
- Manitoba of the National Crime Prevention Centre. When she took leave
in mid-May 2003, she was replaced by Marianne Rivoalen, counsel with the
Department of Justice in Winnipeg.
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Regional Coordinator
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Donna Miller
Regional Director
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Ontario Regional Office
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Liaison with regional program officers in the Department
of Justice
- The regional co-ordinator works with Jayne Kingsbury,
Director, Ontario Region, of the National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC)
and her team to ensure that they have a real presence in the Francophone
community.
- On February 6, 2003, the regional co-ordinator attended
the meeting between the Director of the NCPC and its Francophone clients.
- Contact: Jayne Kingsbury, Director, Ontario Region,
National Crime Prevention Centre: (416) 952-0381
Liaison with the regional officers of Canadian Heritage
- Since the meeting of the regional officers of Canadian
Heritage in Toronto on January 21 was cancelled, we are considering
a meeting at the Ontario Regional Office with the co-ordinator of the
- Contact: Rhoda Muse, Canadian Heritage (Toronto):
(416) 973-1322
- The meeting on April 21 noted the establishment of
the Official Languages Sub-Committee of the Federal Council for Ontario
(FCO) and its first meeting has taken place on June 12, 2003.
- Contact: Rachel Gauvin: (613) 995-9663
- Champion of Official Languages, FCO, Louis Vigneault
Creation of close links with the official language minority
communities (OLMC) and the regional co-ordinators of other organizations
working in the same province, territory or region.
- The ORO promotes the NCPC in the OLMCs by making it
easier for the NCPC to purchase advertising space in the Annuaire des
Ressources Francophones de Toronto 2003, which serves some 10,000 members
of the Francophone community in Ontario.
- The ORO participates in the official languages network
of the Federal Council for Ontario as well as that of the Department
of Canadian Heritage in Ontario.
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Regional Coordinator
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Paul Evraire
Senior Regional Director
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Whitehorse Regional Office |
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The regional coordinator for the Yukon was appointed in
January 2003 and thus had little time to make connections with the various
stakeholders prior to the end of the 2002-2003 fiscal year. The prior
coordinator for the Yukon had been on extended medical leave in 2002.
Additionally, our office was short-staffed during the 2002-2003 fiscal
year.
- Liaison with regional program managers of the Department of Justice;
- Despite these difficulties, we have consulted with
Guenther Laube, the coordinator of Crime Prevention in the Northern
Region, to discuss ways in which we might address official language
needs in the Territory with the assistance of the Community Mobilization
Program and other Crime Prevention Programs. We intend to pursue these
discussions and develop a strategy in the upcoming fiscal year;
- Liaison with regional managers of Heritage Canada
- Meetings are anticipated in the upcoming fiscal year;
- Liaison with National Headquarters;
- The regional coordinator is a member of the regional
coordinators network of the implamentation of section 41 of the Official
Languages Act.
We have maintained contact with the Association Franco-Yukonnaise
to ensure that our services are presented to the Yukon French Community.
We also provided a French presentation to students at the École
Emilie Tremblay in Whitehorse regarding various criminal justice issues.
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Regional Coordinator and Regional Director
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Northwest Territories Regional Office (Yellowknife)
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The Regional Coordinator for the NWT Regional Office was
able to connect with our minority francophone organizations in NWT via
the Committee on Official Languages of which she is a member. This Committee
is part of the NWT Federal Council's structure. As a member of the Federal
Council in NWT she is able to raise the awareness of departmental obligations
under the Official Languages Act at federal council meetings. The
Committee has regular contact with local francophone community groups,
and currently the Committee, that meets at least once a month, is in the
process of developing options around « a single-window » approach
to delivery of French language services in NWT. We are also in dialogue
with « L'association franco-culturelle de Yellowknife »
with respect to the issue of the Association's desire to have this single-window
situated within a future cultural centre that the Association desires
to have in Yellowknife. She also had the opportunity to accompany the
Chair of the Official Languages Committee to a meeting with deputy ministers
of the Government of the NWT (GNWT). At this meeting in January 2003,
as federal officials, they explained the mandate of the Committee and
renewed their previous commitment to working alongside their territorial
colleagues in their « single-window » approach. They have extended
their hand to GNWT to partner (for example: share space where territorial
services and federal services would be provided via separate venues) with
federal departments should a single-window become a reality.
She has also reached out to her justice colleague in Yellowknife,
who is Director of the Northern Region's crime prevention program, and
to the aboriginal justice strategy contact. The NCPC\AJS office in Yellowknife
has recently opened, and discussions are ongoing on this issue. She has
also had discussions with her colleagues in other Regional Offices in
Nunavut and Yukon including the Senior Regional Director, as to how best
to support the program colleagues in outreach activities to the francophone
minority in NWT. They hope to develop a strategy on this front in the
near future.
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Regional Coordinator and Regional Director
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Nunavut Regional Office
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| Richard Meredith
Regional Coordinator and Regional Director
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