Creating Spaces for Young Quebecers: Youth Plan

Listen to Creating Spaces Launch [Runs: 28:50]

The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) Youth Standing Committee released a report on January 22, 2009 entitled Creating Spaces for Young Quebecers: Strategic Orientations for English-speaking Youth in Quebec. The launch event was hosted by CBC Montreal's Monique Lacombe and was held at the Centre Saint Ambroise in St-Henri.

The QCGN Youth document articulates the challenges and priorities of English-speaking Quebecers ages 16-29 and is the result of consultations conducted in eight regions of the province during June and July 2008 as well as the GENERATION Provincial Youth Forum which was held last September. This website was set up by the CBC to help support Qubec's English-speaking Youth. Creating Spaces is a document created by and for English-speaking youth, and offers simple, yet powerful ideas for creating a strong Quebec in which English-speaking youth maintain their identity and contribute fully to Quebec society.

We are very pleased with the results of this project and thank the members of our Youth Standing Committee for a job well done,” added Robert Donnelly, President of QCGN. “We believe that Creating Spaces provides invaluable information on how English-speaking youth feel and their desire to work together towards their vision of Quebec.”

“Creating Spaces presents a positive message regarding future relations between English-speaking and Francophone youth,” said Shawna Dunbar, co-chair of the Youth Standing Committee. “English-speaking youth wish to leave past conflict and tensions behind as they embrace bilingualism and demonstrate an authentic desire to move past the ‘two solitudes’.”

To download an English copy of Creating Spaces for Young Quebecers: Strategic Orientations for English-speaking Youth in Quebec, click one of the two PDF versions below:
Full colour: http://qcgn.ca/files/QCGN/aCreating_Spaces_low_resolution.pdf
Print-friendly: http://qcgn.ca/files/QCGN/aqcgn_english_web_bw.pdf

The QCGN wishes to thank the CBC for their partnership during this project and the department of Canadian Heritage for their financial contribution.

Below are some pictures of the "Creating Spaces" event taken by photographer David Sherwood Bell:

Left to right: Tonika Harnest (member, QCGN Youth Standing Committee), Brent Platt (co-chair, QCGN Youth Standing Committee), Lise Palmer (QCGN Youth Project Coordinator), two youth guests from the Laurentians.

Foreground: Ilona Dougherty of Apathy is Boring; youth guests

Monique Lacombe, CBC moderator

Brent Platt (co-chair) and Luigi Marshall (member), QCGN Youth Standing Committee