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Appearing six times a year, the Network News informs our partners and stakeholders as well as members of Quebec’s English-speaking community about the latest activities, news, and views of the Quebec Community Groups Network.
NETWORK NEWS AUGUST 2020
Working Together to Strengthen the Voice of English-Speaking Quebec
A message from QCGN President Geoffrey Chambers and Director General Sylvia Martin-Laforge
A quarter of a century ago, the QCGN was founded with a mandate to build the understanding and cooperation needed to develop strong, reasoned policy to ensure sustainable growth for English-speaking Quebec. During a strategic planning exercise in 2013, the membership approved an updated mission: The QCGN is a centre of evidence-based expertise and collective action on the strategic issues affecting the development and vitality of English-speaking Quebec.
Our raison d’ètre is to promote English-speaking Quebec as a diverse, confident, recognized, and respected national linguistic minority that makes a significant contribution to the social, economic, cultural, and political life of Quebec and Canada.
NETWORK NEWS JUNE 2020
English-speaking Quebecers Need an Effective Advocacy Voice
A message from QCGN President Geoffrey Chambers and Director General Sylvia Martin-Laforge
While the Quebec government is concentrated on the COVID 19 public health care crisis, it has no intention of backing off on key policy initiatives that our community opposes such as the abolition of English school boards. This has a significant impact the vitality and future of Quebec’s English-speaking minority.
Now more than ever it is clear that English-speaking Quebecers need an effective advocacy group!
NETWORK NEWS MARCH 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
A message from QCGN President Geoffrey Chambers and Director General Sylvia Martin-Laforge
Dear QCGN Members, Stakeholders and Friends,
We hope all of you are staying safe and healthy as each of us does our part to flatten the curve and stop the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Our lives have been upended and we are doing our best to adjust.
Already this public health emergency has forced a virtual lockdown of our member organizations. Our QCGN office is closed, but our staff is working remotely to continue to provide necessary support to our members, stakeholders and community.
We at the QCGN maintain that our community organizations and institutions, which employ thousands of English-speaking Quebecers, are the cornerstones of our community. The critical need for community and government support for individuals, institutions and organizations – and their employees – cannot be underestimated. They are vital to the fabric of our community and the wider society in which we live and to which we actively contribute. This fundamental belief is guiding us in our discussions with government officials at all levels.
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NETWORK NEWS DECEMBER 2019
English-speaking community needs to speak with one voice
By Geoffrey Chambers, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network
These are tumultuous times for Quebec’s English speaking-community. The signal from the Quebec government is that it intends to persist in attacking our values and our rights. If we are going to continue to promote a tolerant and inclusive Quebec, we will need to speak with one voice. That means bringing together all of the groups and individuals that make up English-speaking Quebec, including major institutions that serve our community such as our universities, CEGEPs, school boards, municipalities, health and social service institutions – as well as the foundations and groups that support these organizations. The QCGN plays a critical role in defending the interests of our community and protecting our constitutional rights, often bringing different groups together and helping forge a common strategy and game plan.
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Network News October 2017
/in Network News /by QCGN CommunicationsQCGN BUSY DOING HOMEWORK BEFORE AND AFTER “LA RENTRÉE” By Jim Shea QCGN President I hope you had a relaxing summer and that “La Rentrée” has been productive. While some of us spent our summers on vacation at the beach or at the cottage, the QCGN office has been busy moving forward on an assortment […]
Network News July 2017
/in Network News /by QCGN CommunicationsQCGN CELEBRATES NEW OPENNESS OF QUEBEC GOVERNMENT TO ENGLISH-SPEAKING QUEBECERS By Jim Shea QCGN President In June, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard announced he is creating a new secretariat dedicated to English-speaking Quebecers. The office, which will be part of the premier’s executive council, will allow our community to voice its concerns at the highest levels of government. […]
Network News April 2017
/in Network News /by QCGN CommunicationsPresident’s Message By Jim Shea QCGN President As winter turns to spring, the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) has been keeping busy. In March, we held a major conference on the integration of newcomers in Quebec’s English-speaking communities as well as the wrap up of our three-year Young Quebecers Leading the Way project. April promises to […]