The Sudbury Francophone Community – Introduction
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This community study reports on research conducted on the Sudbury Francophone community in the fall of 2006 at the initiative of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. Part of a broader action-research program on vitality indicators of official language communities, its objective is to define vitality indicators for this official language community, and to provide the community with tools to conduct its own evaluation and report on it to governments.
The context of this initiative is described in the following pages (Section 1). An overview of the Sudbury Francophone community follows (Section 2), as well as a presentation of the indicators the task force selected (Section 3). There are considerations on the information sources that help verify the indicators (Section 4) and on the capacity building needs for community evaluation (Section 5). Finally, a community evaluation approach is proposed (Section 6).
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