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Evidence of meeting #49 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 report.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #49 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 report.
A recording is available from Parliament.
9:55 a.m.
Deputy Minister, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Yes, we can give you the work plan, but also the analysis that we've conducted of the ratings we've previously obtained. We monitor that very closely.
Employees, particularly those in human resources, work closely with colleagues from other departments to ensure everyone learns from everyone else.
We'll send you the information as soon as we have it.
9:55 a.m.
Bloc
Monique Guay Bloc Rivière-du-Nord, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
First, I very much hope you improve, even though you have received Bs, which is still good. There nevertheless has to be an improvement so that francophones and anglophones can feel comfortable working in their language and translation is done quickly. This is extremely important because there are decisions that follow and sometimes a delay can cause irreparable harm.
I'd like to know whether you have a service like those in other departments. Some departments gave us PowerPoint presentations in which they explained how they operate. They have official languages, but also a certain translation dictionary. It was extremely interesting. They're very advanced compared to other departments. Do you have anything similar to that? Do you intend to do that, if you don't have that kind of tool?
10 a.m.
Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Resources and Corporate Services, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
The deputy minister doesn't like acronyms, but we have lists of acronyms in English and French. We have tools to assist translation and the people who draft reports in their own official language.
10 a.m.
Deputy Minister, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
But we're always ready to learn from those who have—
10 a.m.
Bloc
Monique Guay Bloc Rivière-du-Nord, QC
I suggest you check with your colleagues from other departments who are highly advanced. They made a PowerPoint presentation that was extremely interesting. We saw that they were making a constant bilingualism effort.
10 a.m.
NDP
The Vice-Chair NDP Yvon Godin
Thank you.
This brings our meeting with representatives from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to an end.
Deputy Minister Dansereau, I want to thank you and your colleagues.
We will now complete this first part of our meeting. In a few minutes, we'll continue our business in camera with the committee Chair, Mr. Steven Blaney, in the chair.
Thanks to everyone and good day.
[Proceedings continue in camera]