Skip to main content
;

LANG Committee Report

If you have any questions or comments regarding the accessibility of this publication, please contact us at accessible@parl.gc.ca.

PDF

APPENDIX A: LIST OF WITNESSES

 

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Department of Canadian Heritage

Tom Scrimger, Assistant Deputy Minister
Citizenship and Heritage

2011/10/18

7

Jean-Pierre C. Gauthier, Senior Director
Official Languages Secretariat

   

Quebec Community Groups Network

Sylvia Martin-Laforge, Director General

2011/10/27

9

Stephen D. Thompson, Director
Policy, Research and Public Affairs

   

Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada

François Côté, Secretary General

2011/11/01

10

Simon Forgues, Development and Communications Officer

   

Association de la presse francophone

Francis Potié, Executive Director

   

Quebec Community Newspapers Association

Lily Ryan, Member of the Board of Director
Editor, West Quebec Post

   

Assemblée communautaire fransaskoise

Paul Heppelle, President

2011/11/03

11

Denis Simard, Director General

   

Association canadienne-française de l'Alberta

Dolorèse Nolette, President

   

Denis Perreaux, Director General

   

Consortium national de formation en santé

Jocelyne Lalonde, Executive Director

2011/11/15

12

Caroline Gagnon, Director of Communications

   

Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique

Réal Roy, President

   

Christine Sotteau, Executive Director

   

Société Santé en français

Denis Fortier, Vice-President
Medical Services, Regional Health Authority Central Manitoba Inc., Member of the Board of Directors, Conseil communauté en santé du Manitoba

   

Société Santé en français

Colette Rivet, Executive Director

 

 

Aurel Schofield, Steering Committee Member
Director, Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick, Associate Dean, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé de l'Université de Sherbrooke

   

Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario

Denis Vaillancourt, President

2011/11/17

13

Gilles LeVasseur, Vice-President

   

Fédération de la jeunesse canadienne-française

Alexis Couture, President

   

Sylvain Groulx, Director General

   

Association franco-yukonnaise

Jean-Sébastien Blais, Vice-President

2011/11/22

14

Régis St-Pierre, Co-Executive Director

   

Fédération des associations de juristes d'expression française de common law inc.

Josée Forest-Niesing, President

   

Rénald Rémillard, Executive Director

   

Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones

Yolande Dupuis, Past-President

   

Roger Paul, Executive Director

   

Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse

Ronald Robichaud, President

2011/11/24

15

Jean Léger, Executive Director

   

Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada

Marie-France Kenny, President

   

Suzanne Bossé, Director General

   

Conseil canadien de la coopération et de la mutualité

Marthe Hamelin, President

2011/11/29

16

Brigitte Gagné, Director General

   

Melvin Doiron, Administrator
Board of Directors, Director General of the Coopérative de développement régional – Acadie ltée

   

Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDÉE) Canada

Collin Bourgeois, President

 

 

Guy Le Blanc, Administrator

   

Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick

Jean-Marie Nadeau, President

   

Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne

Kenneth McRoberts, President

2011/12/01

17

Jocelyne Lalonde, Director General

   

Commission nationale des parents francophones

Ghislaine Pilon, President

   

Adèle David, Director

   

Réseau pour le développement de l'alphabétisme et des compétences

Colette Arsenault, President

   

Normand Lévesque, Director General

   

Alliance des femmes de la francophonie canadienne

Louise-Hélène Villeneuve, President

2011/12/06

18

Manon Beaulieu, Director General

   

Black Community Resource Centre

Dorothy W. Williams, Program Director

   

Gemma Raeburn-Baynes, Partner
President, Playmas Montréal Cultural Association

   

Fédération des aînées et aînés francophones du Canada

Jean-Luc Racine, Director General

   

Fédération culturelle canadienne-française

Marie-Claude Doucet, President

2011/12/08

19

Éric Dubeau, Director General

   

Société franco-manitobaine

Nicole Forest Lavergne, President

   

Ibrahima Diallo, Past-President

   

Société Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (Société acadienne de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard)

Gabriel Arsenault, President

   

Aline Bouffard-Cohen, Director General

   

Department of Canadian Heritage

Hubert Lussier, Assistant Deputy Minister
Citizenship and Heritage Branch

2012/02/16

26

Yvan Déry, Acting Director General
Official Languages Support Programs, Office of the Director General

   

Jean-Pierre C. Gauthier, Senior Director
Official Languages Secretariat

   

Department of Justice

Andrée Duchesne, Senior Counsel and Manager
Francophonie, Justice in Official Languages and Legal Dualism

2012/02/28

27

Linda DuPont, Legal Counsel
Francophonie, Justice in Official Languages and Legal Dualism

   

Health Canada

Debbie Beresford-Green, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister
Regions and Programs Branch

   

Roger Farley, Acting Director General
Programs Directorate, Regions and Programs Branch

   

Statistics Canada

François Nault, Director
Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division

   

Jean-Pierre Corbeil, Chief Specialist
Language Statistics Section

   

Canada School of Public Service

Nancie Cantin, Director
Research and Development

2012/03/01

28

Department of Human Resources and Skills Development

Stephen Johnson, Director General
Evaluation Directorate, Strategic Policy and Research Branch

   

David McGovern, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister
Strategic Policy and Research Branch

   

Treasury Board Secretariat

Ross MacLeod, Assistant Deputy Minister
Governance Planning and Policy Sector

   

Marc Tremblay, Executive Director, Official Languages

   

Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

Michel Robillard, Vice-President

2012/03/06

29

Yves Robineau, Director
Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer

   

Department of Industry

Mitch Davies, Acting Assistant Deputy Minister
Regional Operations

 

 

Aime Dimatteo, Director General
FedNor (Federal Economic Development Initiative in Northern Ontario)

   

Lisa Setlakwe, Director General
Regional Policy and Coordination Branch

   

Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions

Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Director General
Policy, Research and Programs

2012/03/08

30

Gilles Pelletier, Director General
Regional Operations

   

National Research Council Canada

Danial Wayner, Vice-President
Frontier Science

   

Charles-Antoine Gauthier, Acting Director
Research Programs

   

Western Economic Diversification Canada

Daniel Watson, Deputy Minister

   

James Meddings, Assistant Deputy Minister

   

France Guimond, Director General
Operations-Manitoba

   

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Denise Frenette, Vice-President
Finance and Corporate Services

2012/03/13

31

Wade Aucoin, Acting Director General
Community Developpment

   

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Yves Saint-Germain, Director
Information, Language and Community Program Policy

   

Peter Sylvester, Associate Deputy Minister

   

Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages

Graham Fraser, Commissioner

2012/03/15

32

Ghislaine Charlebois, Assistant Commissioner
Compliance Assurance Branch

   

Lise Cloutier, Assistant Commissioner
Corporate Management Branch

   

Sylvain Giguère, Assistant Commissioner
Policy and Communications Branch

   

Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages

Johane Tremblay, General Counsel
Legal Affairs Branch

2012/03/15

32

Canadian Parents for French

Lisa Marie Perkins, President
National Office

2012/03/27

33

Robert Rothon, Executive Director
National Office

   

Canadian Youth for French

Justin Morrow, Founder and Executive Director

   

Department of Public Works and Government Services

Donna Achimov, Chief Executive Officer
Translation Bureau

   

Diane Lorenzato, Assistant Deputy Minister
Human Resources Branch

   

Marc Olivier, Manager
Translation Bureau, Linguistic Services Division

   

Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

Jeff Moore, Vice-President
Policy, Partnerships and Performance Management

   

Susan  Anzolin, Director General
Innovation and Economic Development

   

Association canadienne d'éducation de langue française

Yves Saint-Maurice, President

2012/03/29

34

Richard Lacombe, Director General

   

Canadian Association of Immersion Teachers

Philippe LeDorze, President

   

Chantal Bourbonnais, Director General

   

Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers

Caroline Turnbull, Vice-President

   

Guy Leclair, Executive Director

   

Hilaire Lemoine, Treasurer

   

Canadian Teachers' Federation

Paul Taillefer, President

   

Ronald Boudreau, Director
Services to Francophones

   

English Language Arts Network Quebec

Charles Childs, President

2012/04/03

35

Guy Rodgers, Executive Director

   

Quebec English School Boards Association

David D'Aoust, President

   

David Birnbaum, Executive Director

   

Michael Chiasson, Executive Committee Member

   

Townshippers' Association

Gerald Cutting, President

   

Ingrid Marini, Executive Director

   

Community Health and Social Services Network

Jennifer Johnson, Executive Director

2012/04/05

36

James Carter, Program and Policy Advisor

   

Leading English Education and Resource Network

Paule Langevin, Project Director
Community Learning Centre Inititative

   

Debbie Horrocks, Assistant Project Director and Community Liaison Coordinator
Community Learning Centre Initiative

   

Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

Kevin O'Donnell, President

   

Roderick MacLeod, Past President

   

Matthew Farfan, Executive Director

   

Youth Employment Services

John Aylen, President
Board of Directors

   

Iris Unger, Executive Director

   

Association des francophones du Nunavut

Mathieu René, Director
Board of Directors

2012/04/24

37

Mylène Chartrand, Vice Chair
Board of Directors

   

Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities

Éric Forgues, Researcher

   

Fédération des francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador

Jules Custodio, President

   

Gaël Corbineau, Director General

   

Fédération franco-ténoise

Claire Beaubien, Executive Director

   

Léo-Paul Provencher, Past Executive Director

   

Josianne Beaumont, Second Vice-President
Board of Directors

   

Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation

John Buck, Executive Director

2012/04/26

38

Grant Myers, Provincial Economic Development Officer

   

Concordia University

David Graham, Provost and Vice-President
Academic Affairs

   

Lorraine O'Donnell, Coordinator-Researcher
Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN)

   

Regional Association of West Quebecers

Noel Gates, President

   

Heather Stronach, Executive Director

   

Société nationale de l'Acadie

Françoise Enguehard, President

   

Éric Mathieu Doucet, Executive Director

   

Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada

Marie-France Kenny, President

2012/05/01

39

Suzanne Bossé, Director General

   

Quebec Community Groups Network

Noel Burke, Interim President

   

Sylvia Martin-Laforge, Director General

   

Stephen D. Thompson, Director
Policy, Research and Public Affairs

   

University of Ottawa

Richard Clément, Director and Associate Dean
Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute

   

Hilaire Lemoine, Executive in Residence
Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute

   

James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages

Daniel Jean, Deputy Minister

   

Department of Canadian Heritage

Hubert Lussier, Assistant Deputy Minister
Citizenship and Heritage Branch

2012/05/03

40