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Members of the Drummondville and BC Delegations:

e Ms. Marie Eve Le Gendre, city councillor

e Ms. Danielle Dufresne, director of art, culture
and immigration services with the City of
Drummondville

e Mr. Errol Mayrand, President of the Village
québécois d’Antan

e Mr. Yves Parenteau, Administrative Director
of Mondial des cultures

e Mr. Roland Janelle, Director General of the
Centre des arts Desjardins in Drummondville

e Mr. Pierre Rivard, DG of the Centre culturel
francophone de Vancouver

e Mr. Christian Francey, Director General of the

Société francophone de Victoria Left to right: Mr. Christian Francey, Mr. Roland Janelle, Mr. Errol Mayrand,
e Ms. Christine Sotteau, Executive Director Ms. Danielle Dufresne, Mr. Michel Olivier Matte (RVF), Mr. Dean Fortin
of the FFCB. (Mayor of Victoria), Ms. Marie Eve Le Gendre, Mr. Yves Parenteau,
Mr. Jean Francois Packwood (CCAFCB), and Mr. Réal Roy (FFCB).

IDENTIFYING AREAS OF COOPERATION

© Organization of an Air Canada contest during the © Support from the City of Drummondville in drafting
Festival d’été de Vancouver a cultural policy with the BC Francophone

e Promotion and awareness campaign in Drummondville representatives
regarding the vitality of BC’s Francophone community e Joint participation in a cultural symposium at

e Linking the Drummondville and FFCB websites La Roche sur Yon/Puy du Fou (France) in

© Uniting the Vancouver and Drummondville poutine September 2012.
festivals

e Collaboration between newspapers in Vancouver
and Drummondville

Media

© On November 8, as part of its participation in the OLMCM - CRTC Discussion
Group (Official Language and Minority Communities Members - Canadian
Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission), the FFCB attended
a video conference on the working group’s governance, national problems
affecting CBC/Radio-Canada and public processes that could affect
minority communities.

The FFCB attended several CBC-French promotional activities: launching
of the annual report, open house, program launch, annual public meeting
and tapings of various shows.

The FFCB worked with the Association de la presse francophone (APF)
[Francophone Press Association] to promote the Parlons avec nos médias
[Talk to the Media] initiative among French speaking British Columbians.
It also assisted with the content of the APF questionnaire to ensure that
local media were properly represented in the Canadian survey.