2 • POSTED ON May 15, 2008 Nepean High School Students Joined Hundreds of their Peers on Parliament Hill to Celebrate Diversity Posted by mcollins
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Nepean High School students were among hundreds of OCDSB senior students taking part in the fifth Era 21 Networking Breakfast for Young Canadians and Parliamentarians.
Nepean High School students were among hundreds of OCDSB senior students taking part in the fifth Era 21 Networking Breakfast for Young Canadians and Parliamentarians.
The theme of the Breakfast panel, offered by the J’Nikira Dinqinesh
Education Centre in Ottawa, in conjunction with the Ottawa Asian
Heritage Month Society, was The Global Power of Young Canadians. This
year, the breakfast was designed to jointly celebrate Asian Heritage
Month and Black History Month. Nepean High School Principal Rene Bibaud
says, “The goal of the Era 21 Networking Breakfast is to support young
people, who comprise our nation’s multi-cultural citizenry, and to
encourage them to network with students of diverse ethnicities and
backgrounds, which in the end will result in access to global
opportunities.” Mr. Bibaud added that the program merges well with the
Grade 11 and 12 curriculum.
Canada has a proud heritage of over 200 ethno-cultural groups, in
essense Canada is a cultural microcosm of the world. Without leaving
home, Era 21 Young Canadians have peers from numerous backgrounds with
whom to build networks and develop friendships. Mr. Bibaud says, “The
attitudes, knowledge, and skills that are formed in network building
are powerful tools for success in a rapidly changing, multicultural and
global world.”
United by Canadian values that stress the importance of sharing in each
other’s cultures, young Canadians can become global citizens, open to
learning, at ease with differences, and adept at negotiating cultural,
racial and linguistic boundaries.
