There are two ways to look at that. Contracting out means that those positions don't have to meet the language requirements. That work is done by a contractor who doesn't know both official languages, so we need to make sure that what the government says are its priorities are still met, even when we're contracting. Maybe we can make those part of the contracts such that if there's a bilingual position, we need to have them.
From the perspective of contracting out the language services, I think we get less accountability and transparency. We don't have standards, and we need to make sure that when we offer language training, everybody has equitable access to that training.
