For immediate release: June 30, 2023
CANADIAN PARENTS FOR FRENCH, NEW BRUNSWICK RECOGNIZES THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Halifax, July 1, 2023 – Canadian Parents for French, New Brunswick would like to acknowledge the Department of Canadian Heritage for its ongoing financial support to help our organization carry out its core program activities. A contribution in the amount of $176,000 will be awarded to help our organization carry out its activities, under the Enhancement of Official Languages Program, Promotion of Linguistic Duality Component. This funding is allocated for the government fiscal year of 2023-2024.
It is in large part due to this financial assistance that Canadian Parents for French, New Brunswick, has been able to provide leadership and oversight to members as well as support the provincial branch for over forty years. Furthermore much of Canadian Parents for French, New Brunswick’s work has also gone towards informing and influencing educational decision makers and increasing public awareness of the importance of French second language education in Canada.
This core program contribution sustains and solidifies the Canadian Parents for French, New Brunswick volunteers’ collective efforts to fulfill our mandate towards promoting and creating opportunities for students to learn and use French. Working together, Canadian Parents for French, New Brunswick can increase our impact across the country and help the Department of Canadian Heritage promote a Bilingual Canada, helping share our rich linguistic and culturally diverse stories and continuing to build a strong and inclusive Canada, and working to reach the objective to increase the bilingualism rate of the Canadian population to 20% by 2036. We look forward to continuing our important work together in the years to come.
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For more information, please contact Najah Dhuny, Communications Coordinator (Atlantic
Region) at 902-453-2048 or toll free at 1-888-CPF-5233.
Canadian Parents for French is a nationwide, research-informed, volunteer organization that represents 35,000 members across Canada and champions the opportunity to learn and use
French for all those who call Canada home.
Canadian Parents for French, Nova Scotia
8 Flamingo Drive, Halifax, NS B3M 4N8
Telephone: (902) 453-2048
Toll-free: 1-877-CPF-5233
Fax: (902) 455-2789
E-mail: cpfexec@ns.cpf.ca
Website: ns.cpf.ca