Evidence of meeting #35 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 rcmp.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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A/Commr Daniel Dubeau
Your question was on the number of bilingual employees in this region, wasn't it?
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Conservative
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A/Commr Daniel Dubeau
And those are just the bilingual positions. That's the total number of bilingual members.
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Director of Official Languages, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Bilingual members. Are you looking for the number of bilingual members or the total number of employees?
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
All the employees providing services in both official languages. That is what I'm asking.
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Director of Official Languages, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Yes. In total, in the Pacific region, we have 95 bilingual positions and 95 people hold those positions.
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A voice
We want to know how many employees are bilingual, not who hold the bilingual positions.
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Director of Official Languages, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
In terms of the actual number of bilingual employees, we cannot tell you because there are a lot more than that.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
You could have bilingual people in unilingual positions.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
Do you feel you're able to serve the public in British Columbia in both official languages?
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Director of Official Languages, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Absolutely.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
What is the problem then? Is it the RCMP culture? What is the problem? Mistakes are made like...
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A/Commr Daniel Dubeau
The problem we are talking about today is the website. There weren't enough translators to translate the small headings. That was the only problem. The decision was made without consultation.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
With all due respect, Mr. Dubeau, you are the champion...
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A/Commr Daniel Dubeau
Yes, the co-champion, sir. We have a new champion who...
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
Do we have a champion in British Columbia?
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A/Commr Daniel Dubeau
The commander is the champion in British Columbia. All the commanders in charge of regional operations are official languages champions.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you, Mr. Lauzon.
We will finish the second round with Mr. Gravelle.
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NDP
Claude Gravelle NDP Nickel Belt, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There is no mention of official languages in your departmental performance report, which is very disturbing. Could you make the commitment that you will be integrating official languages into your program activities in your next report on plans and priorities, or at least confirm that you will try to get Mr. Elliott to make this commitment?
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A/Commr Daniel Dubeau
I can tell you that we'll discuss this with Mr. Elliott.
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NDP
Claude Gravelle NDP Nickel Belt, ON
Ms. Ferreira, I would like to continue talking about Mr. Lauzon's question.
You said there were 95 positions designated as bilingual? How many are filled?
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NDP