The HonorableLizSandals Date: ______
Minister of Education
Mowat Block
22nd Floor
900 Bay Street
TorontoON M7A1L2

Martin Bertrand

Director of Education

Conseil Scolaire Viamonde

116 Cornelius Parkway
Toronto ON M6L 2K5

Dear Minister Sandals and Mr. Bertrand,

I am a parent of a child/children in the French language school system, and I am writing to you to urge you to act to fill the need—a need that has long existed—for a French secondary school in Toronto’s East End.

Since at least 2007, our francophone families in Toronto east have been pushing for a secondary school for their kids, a school that would be equivalent to those attended by neighbouring English-speaking kids—equivalent in terms of its facilities as well as proximity. Currently, if we want our kids to receive French-language instruction, we must send them outside our community, generally to the Collège français, at Jarvis and Carlton. The Collège français is not easily accessed from Toronto’s East End, and has no track and field, auditorium, or specialised classrooms. It is not equivalent to English-language schools in the East End.

Every TDSB secondary school in Toronto’s East End, with the exception of some highly specialized schools like CALC and Greenwood, has access to a track and field, an auditorium and specialised classrooms. We are also entitled to these features.

You have the constitutional obligation to quickly provide for my child/children a school that is equivalent to those available to local English-speaking youth. My child’s/children’s future is in your hands. Please do not disappoint me.

Sincerely,

Name and address: ______

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Copy: The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario

The Honourable Madeleine Meilleur, Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs

François Boileau, French Language Services Commissioner of Ontario

Chloë Robert, School Trustee, Toronto-Centre, Conseil scolaire Viamonde

Addresses

The Honourable Kathleen Wynne
Premier
Legislative Building
Queen’s Park
TorontoON M7A 1A1

The Honourable MadeleineMeilleur
Minister Responsible for Francophone Affairs
Suite 200
700 Bay Street
TorontoON M7A 0A2

François Boileau

French Language Services Commissioner of Ontario

700 Bay Street, Suite 2401
Toronto ON M7A 2H8

Chloë Robert
Membre du Conseil
Conseil scolaire Viamonde

116, Cornelius Parkway
Toronto (Ontario)
M6L 2K5