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We begin by explaining some of the issues and challenges that the English-speaking communities of Quebec have historically faced and continue to face today. English-speaking communities live both as an Official Language Minority Community (OLMC) within Quebec and as a part of the official language majority in the rest of Canada, thus being referred to as a collective min-jority in this report. The majority of English-speaking Quebecers do not have access to programs and services in English that are equivalent to those available in French to the French-speaking majority with regard to social, health, educational, or employment opportunities. This situation is even more fragile for Black and racialized English speakers in Quebec (Pocock, 2024). The implementation of Community Learning Centres, also known as CLCs, was perceived as a concrete way to support the vitality of Quebec’s English-speaking communities, as well as to counter some of the historical issues and challenges faced by communities, such as poverty, unemployment, and underemployment.