Economy

RDÉE Atlantique / ACOA Committee

In collaboration with Ghislaine Savoie, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

The RDÉE Atlantique/ACOA (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency) committee was created in spring 2007. This committee is formed by provincial RDÉE representatives from the four Atlantic provinces and ACOA representatives. The committee has adopted a memorandum of understanding running from April 1, 2007, to March 31, 2009; its purpose is to achieve collaborative actions to strengthen the community and entrepreneurship economic base of Acadian and Francophone communities in the Atlantic Region. The agreement includes the following objectives:

  • Sharing action plans, mandates and objectives as well as activities among economic development stakeholders, such as ACOA, and other federal institutions;
  • Contributing to economic development and sustainable entrepreneurship.

In collaboration with provincial and territorial partners, the Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDÉE Canada) fosters economic development and job creation to ensure the vitality and sustainability of Canada's Francophone and Acadian communities. The committee is an instrument for bringing together Francophone and Acadian communities and the Government of Canada. The objective is to foster the development and socio-economic growth of the Canadian Francophonie.

Manitoba businesses wishing to enter Francophone markets

In collaboration with Jody Simonson, Western Economic Diversification Canada

Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) is providing support to activities related to trade development and investment attraction carried out by the Agence nationale et internationale du Manitoba (ANIM). This nonprofit organization was recently created by the Société franco-manitobaine as a separate entity. Within the framework of its mandate, ANIM will operate in Canada's two official languages to provide services to Manitoba organizations and businesses that wish to expand their presence in national and international Francophone markets. It will also provide services related to investment attraction, working with business clients overseas who would like to invest in Manitoba. ANIM will build on partnerships and networks already established in Quebec, France, Belgium and Tunisia. WD's assistance will serve to: establish partnerships in target regions; develop guiding principles for working with Manitoba businesses wishing to export and for services provided to businesses abroad wanting to invest in Manitoba; identify investment opportunities; organize economic missions; and develop ANIM's website.

10 years of collaboration

In collaboration with Martine Boucher, Human Resources and Social Development Canada

Michel C. Caron, Director, Active Employment Measures, surrounded by the official-language minority community policy team at Human Resources and Social
Michel C. Caron, Director, Active Employment Measures, surrounded by the official-language minority community policy team at Human Resources and Social Development Canada, receives an honorary plaque from Frank Saulnier, President and CEO of RDÉE Alberta.

For close to ten years now, Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) has been collaborating with the Economic Development and Employability Network of Canada (RDÉE Canada) and its members to promote community economic development and vitality within French language minority communities throughout the country. On September 2007, as part of the 10th anniversary of the Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité of Alberta (RDÉE Alberta), President and CEO Frank Saulnier underscored this collaboration by awarding an honorary plaque to HRSDC employees. During that meeting, Mr. Saulnier talked with employees of the youth policy and official language minority communities directorate to inform them of practical projects and partnerships taking place within Alberta's French-language communities. This most interesting meeting shed a little more light on the dynamism of these communities and gave employees an appreciation of the extent to which community networks play an essential role in promoting economic development and vitality.

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