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Official Languages committee In our annual report, we have all those figures, and we can provide them to you. As I said, our bilingual ratio has stagnated at 40% for about nine years, and we can provide you with all the details you want.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee All right. Thank you.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee We'll provide you with the advertisements we placed this year and perhaps involve you to a greater degree. I know that, at our last appearance, in 2006, we had started informing you every time we had to recruit. I don't know whether that has continued or not, but we're going to r
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee Absolutely, yes.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee We hope this is also because our service has improved. With regard to the card, we're making a commitment to see what can be done to raise its profile. Absolutely. As for recruitment, we regularly meet with members of the minority francophone communities at job fairs and parent
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee Absolutely.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee I would say that the employees of an airline are not too different from the population of a country, and the population of those countries speak many more languages than the population of Canada does. We have often been at meetings with other airlines who offer linguistic produ
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee Yes, we're going to try to—
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee Indeed.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee The incentive is to be eligible for that position. That's the main incentive.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee Well, I'm not talking about translation, but for language training it's $1.5 million per year. That's not only the cost of the teachers but also the cost of taking someone from operations and putting them in class for half a day, a day, a month, and so on.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee We have service agreements with our third parties, such as Jazz, whereby the service they offer on our behalf must be equal to the service we offer.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee To reflect the multiculturalism of the country, we recruit people who not only speak the two official languages of Canada; they also speak the languages of our destinations, reflecting also the people of Canada.
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy
Official Languages committee I simply wanted to go back to this. Active officer and “Sorry, I don't speak French,” are the two departure points of the Air Canada course designed for its employees. The course is called, “Un moment s'il vous plaît.” We read the Commissioner's report. They may not be on our be
October 27th, 2009Committee meeting
Louise McEvoy