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In 2003, Air Canada will restructure, spinning off a number of independent companies, including Jazz Airlines. Because these new entities are not part of Air Canada, they are no longer subject to the terms of the Air Canada Public Participation Act, and hence cease to be obligated to adhere to the practices of the Official Languages Act.
The Estates General marked the last time a Canada-wide summit of francophones would take place for over 50 years. [8] In the 2000s and 2010s, however, tensions between Québec and francophone communities elsewhere in Canada calmed and pan-Canadian francophone solidarity began to emerge as an important force.
Connexions is a secular project unaffiliated with any religion, but church-based social activists played an important role in founding and developing the project, and funding through its early years came from church bodies in Canada and abroad, including the United Church of Canada, the Anglican Church of Canada, the Presbyterian Church of ...
Number of francophones by province and territory in Canada (2016) Province/territory Group name Principal regions French as mother tongue Percentage Quebec: Québécois: Regions of Quebec: 8,214,000 85% Ontario: Franco-Ontarians: Sudbury / Northeastern Ontario, Ottawa / Eastern Ontario, and a number of Francophone communities throughout Ontario ...
On October 19, 1999, Air Canada, backed by Star Alliance partners Lufthansa, United Airlines and CIBC announced a $930M counter bid to the Onex offer. Air Canada offered $92M for Canadian Airlines and committed to running it as a separate company. On November 2, Air Canada increased its offer to $16 per share to buy back 36.4 percent of the ...
Francophone Canadians or French-speaking Canadians are citizens of Canada who speak French, and sometimes refers only to those who speak it as their first language.In 2021, 10,669,575 people in Canada or 29.2% of the total population spoke French, including 7,651,360 people or 20.8% who declared French as their mother tongue.
Air Canada Tango: AC ACA Montréal–Trudeau: 2001 - 2004, name retained as a type of fare on its regular Air Canada services Air Club International: Montréal–Mirabel: 1993 - 1998, charter airline with flights to Europe Air Fecteau: Senneterre (defunct) 1936-1967, sold to Quebecair: Air Gaspé: Sept-Îles: 1951 - 1986, became a subsidiary of ...
Association of Colleges and Universities of the Canadian Francophonie (known by the acronym ACUFC for its French name, "Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne") is an association of community colleges and universities in minority francophone communities in Canada, through cooperation between its member institutions.