Parliament of the francophonie of Ontario

The Assemblée of the francophonie of Ontario ( AFO ) is an association which pleads and made pressure for the defense of the rights of the Free-Ontarian S.

It was created in 1910 under the name of Association Canadian-Frenchwoman D Éducation of Ontario (ACFÉO) to claim with the government of the Ontario that the French is a Official language in primary and secondary education like in the schools of training of the teachers. It is in 1969 that the ACFEO becomes ACFO. During the major part of its history, acronym ACFO was synonymous with Association Canadian-Frenchwoman of Ontario . In fact, several French-speaking people of Ontario remember acronym ACFO rather than recent AFO. It is with the fusion of the old ACFO and the project Agreement-Community Canada-Ontario (an organization created by Patrimoine Canada) that the current organization owes its name and its structure.

In June 2006, Mariette Carrier-Fraser was elected to replace Simon Lalande as president of the AFO.

Objective

Mainly, the ACFO acts as a group of lobby which has the role the development and the blooming of the community free-Ontarian. Its main office is in Ottawa.

Achievements

During its history, the ACFO lengthily militated to obtain certain concessions of the Ontarian government, or quite simply to fight against a legislation penalizing the French-speaking people.

Association was very active at the time of the Règlement 17, with the whole beginning of its history. This fight against the Ontarian government was one of its first great achievements.

Recently, it was active to obtain exclusively French-speaking colleges in Ontario, of which the collegial City with Ottawa, the Boreal Collège with Sudbury and the Collège of the Large-Lakes to Toronto. It is as with the ACFO and several affiliated organizations as the Ontarian government decided, in 1996, to give twelve entirely French-speaking school councils to its population.

In 1997, several members of the ACFO, through the province like by the means of the regional ACFO of Ottawa, allowed the hospital Montfort of Ottawa to remain open, in spite of the threats of closing of the Ontarian government. In 2001, the provincial ACFO militates with the Liberal party of Ontario to recognize the flag free-Ontarian with the Ontarian legislature. The bill is adopted unanimously.

Structure

Since November 2005, the Parliament of the francophonie of Ontario is made up members elected at the time of the Annual general meeting. The most important station and most representative is that of president (see also: List of the presidents of the ACFO). Several vice-presidents are égalements members of the executive, having often roles of transfer between the provincial AFO and its regional members or its affiliated associations.

The organization includes/understands 22 district councils, under the name of regional ACFO. For the majority of these regional organizations, name ACFO is preserved in spite of the new name of their provincial counterpart. The regional ACFO are regroupings of French-speaking people in a given geographical area of the Ontario, brought together for the same goals and objectives, but also to meet the specific needs of their own area.

26 organizations of different affiliations are also permanent members of the AFO, recognized in the new structure.

See too

regional ACFO
Coalition of the regional ACFO
List of the presidents of the ACFO

External bond

Official site
the Parliament of the francophonie of Ontario

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