00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.837875 CaOODSP 20221107151239 cr ||||||||||| 170607s2017 oncad obs f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn-bc YC34-0/421-4E-PDF Canada. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Official Languages. Horizon 2018 [electronic resource] : toward stronger support of French-language learning in British Columbia / The Honourable Claudette Tardif, chair ; The Honourable Rose-May Poirier, deputy chair. Toward stronger support of French-language learning in British Columbia Ottawa : Senate, 2017. xiii, 70, xxvi p. : charts, ill. (some col.) + 3 v. (vii, [2], 6 p.) Report of the Standing Senate Committee on on Official Languages ; [4th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session] Issued also in French under title: Horizon 2018 : vers un appui renforcé è l’apprentissage du français en Colombie-Britannique. Cover title. “May 2017.” Includes report summary, report highlights, and government response. Includes bibliographical references. “Canadians living in British Columbia face major challenges in accessing Francophone schools and French immersion programs. In this report, the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages chose to focus on accessing French first-language and French second-language education in British Columbia because the province is a typical case in which francophone schools and French immersion programs face significant challenges. These challenges, however, are not unique to B.C. and the lessons learned in this report can also be applied in other jurisdictions. The current report builds on the committee’s 2015 report called Aiming Higher: Increasing bilingualism of our Canadian youth. The conclusions and recommendations of the committee’s report apply to francophone schools, French immersion programs and British Columbia’s French-speaking community at large, including francophones and francophiles, and the support they are entitled to"--Executive summary, p. vii, viii. gccst Francophonie gccst French language gccst French second language gccst Government policy Tardif, Claudette. Poirier, Rose-May, 1954- Horizon 2018 (CaOODSP)9.837883 Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages ; [4th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session] (CaOODSP)9.505258 PDF 52.41 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/sen/yc34-0/YC34-0-421-4-eng.pdf Report PDF 3.89 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/sen/yc34-0/YC34-0-421-4-1-eng.pdf Summary PDF 480 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/sen/yc34-0/YC34-0-421-4-2-eng.pdf Highlights PDF 177 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/sen/yc34-0/YC34-0-421-4-3-eng.pdf Government response