Evidence of meeting #34 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was languages.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Senior Director General, Office of the Senior Director General - Corporate Resourcing Branch, Library and Archives Canada
Right now it's Zahra Pourjafar-Ziaei.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you very much, Mr. Bélanger.
This completes the first part of our meeting. I would like to thank our witnesses for coming to meet with us to tell us about the situation at their department.
We encourage you to continue your efforts and to forward the information that was requested by committee members.
Mr. Nadeau.
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Bloc
Richard Nadeau Bloc Gatineau, QC
Mr. Chairman, I would like to address another topic, and perhaps Mr. Bélanger could enlighten me as well.
How is a champion selected? I understand the principle with regard to official languages. Is it a competition? Mr. Caron, you yourself were a champion.
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Librarian and Archivist, Library and Archives Canada
First, the champion has to be a member of senior management, of the executive committee. There are various files, so it's important that it's someone bilingual, someone who can promote the official languages, of course, which should be the case of all members of senior management. So that person is selected from among management officers and plays that role for perhaps two years. Then that person moves on to other roles, and so on. However, it isn't a competition; it's a responsibility.
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Librarian and Archivist, Library and Archives Canada
Yes. The person has to be a high-level employee. Otherwise that has no impact.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you very much.
We'll suspend the meeting for a few minutes and then come back to discuss committee business.
Thank you.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
