Wednesday, June 8, 2011

La Francophone who?

La Francophonie is an association  of countries that speak French widely or, have French as an official language.  There are forty-six member countries.  The organization was founded in 1960.  Thee main goal of la Francophonie is to guard French heritage and culture.  La Francophonie is much like a French speaking Commonwealth.  Developed countries in la Francophonie help developing member countries, through education, health, agriculture and other social and science programs.
Canada is a member of la Francophonie but two Canadian provinces are also, Quebec and New Brunswick.  This allows those two provinces to cast cotes independently on matters of co-operation and development but not on political matters, only the national delegate can vote on those matters.

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