Information fairs for Francophone seniors

The government’s commitment to providing quality services in all parts of Ontario, including in remote communities, is the driving force behind the partnership established between the Ontario Seniors’ Secretariat and the Fédération des aînés et des retraités francophones de l’Ontario — a group that serves the interests of Ontario’s active and retired Francophone seniors.

While the Commissioner applauds the Ontario Government’s partnership approach in the delivery of information to Francophone seniors, this type of initiative could, perhaps, be better supported through the Web, given that seniors are increasingly becoming avid Web users. (According to a Statistics Canada study conducted in 2007, seniors use Internet the least, but they are the fastest growing group: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2009002/article/10910-eng.htm).