Ottawa, June 22, 2023— Canadian Parents for French, National on behalf of the pan-Canadian Network 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 $3,348,000 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 will be allocated over three government fiscal years 2023-2026.
It is in large part due to this financial assistance that Canadian Parents for French, as a pan-Canadian Network has been able to provide leadership and oversight to a volunteer network of 34,000 members as well as support 9 Branches and offices on the ground in every province and territory for over forty years. Furthermore much of CPF’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 volunteers’ collective efforts to fulfill our mandate towards promoting and creating opportunities for students to learn and use French. Working together, CPF 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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Canadian Parents for French is a nationwide, research-informed, volunteer organization that promotes and creates opportunities to learn and use French for all those who call Canada home.
For more information, please contact:
Marcos Salaiza, Communications Manager
Tel: 613.235.1481 x222 Email: msalaiza@cpf.ca