Okay, you carry out evaluations.
You say: “[...] our role is to provide institutions subject to the act the support they need to fulfil their responsibilities for official languages.” Furthermore, you say that you want to recruit more young bilingual Canadians to the public service. You also want managers to: “[...] work with their employees to ensure that bilingualism is further rooted in the workplace.” That all sounds great.
However, when I was in my car this morning, I heard a recruitment advertisement for the RCMP on the radio. I got a copy of the text to be certain that I understood properly. One of the skills required to become a member of the RCMP... And we know the problems that the RCMP is facing around the country. The RCMP has had problems with bilingualism, it still has them, and I imagine it will continue to have them in the future. Problems with bilingualism are ubiquitous in the RCMP. In spite of that, however, in its radio and Internet recruitment advertisements, the RCMP specifies that candidates must be “proficient in English or French”. I would certainly hope that candidates would have to be proficient in either one or the other—if not, we would certainly have a problem on our hands! I find it a little bit strange. We know that the RCMP has problems with regard to bilingualism. You said that you wanted to ensure that young Canadians were increasingly bilingual and able to work in bilingual positions. However, quite the opposite message is being communicated by the job offer that I heard on the radio this morning, which states that proficiency in one of Canada's two official languages is enough.
If it is enough to be proficient in one of the two official languages to get a job with the RCMP, French-speakers will end up only working in Quebec and English-speakers will end up working only outside of Quebec. I come from New Brunswick and I cannot help but wonder how members of official language minority communities will get service in their language if RCMP officers are required to speak only English or French. The RCMP are currently using this advertisement even though they are under fire for shortcomings with regard to bilingualism.