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The complaint that was filed by TALQ to the Commissioner of Official Languages highlights the shortcomings of the application of part VII. This is crystallized in the Canada-Québec Agreement on the Implementation of the Action Plan for Official Languages.
The problems with that agreement, which TALQ was complaining about to the commissioner, are the absence of a documented impact analysis specific to English-speaking Quebeckers in that agreement; the limited consultation with the English-speaking community of Quebec in the creation of that agreement; a lack of binding safeguards in that agreement to ensure benefits to the English-speaking community of Quebec; and, similarly, insufficient transparency in the design of the agreement.
If you look at the agreement, you see it's a transfer of federal money from Canada to Quebec under the rubric of the action plan for official languages, but it does not contain, in TALQ's view, any of the requirements under part VII of the Official Languages Act in terms of transparency and accountability for that money.
