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Official Languages committee I'm not an expert on jewellery.
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee I'd like to qualify some of your statements. For example, I wouldn't say that National Defence's plans represent a way of shirking obligations under the act or of making it so that senior officers are no longer required to be bilingual. If I understand correctly, that represents
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee In my report, I expressed my concerns about certain trends in the government's decisions.
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee Indeed.
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee That's the finding of a report that has been detailed in depth. That's indeed the finding we made.
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee I have two points to mention. In our report on the complaints we've received with regard to the government's conduct, we concluded that there was a lack of compliance with the act. Second, I'm making an effort to stop referring to Bill S-3 because it is as though that amendment
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee I haven't. I certainly haven't looked at costs. You're right that the European community has adopted a slogan; I think it's “mother tongue plus two”. It's the idea that Europeans should learn not just a second but a third language. The one thing I would observe is that learning
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee Unfortunately, I didn't reread your recommendations before appearing today. I read your report and I was impressed by the 39 recommendations and by the evidence you gathered across the country, somewhat confirming my observations when I made my visits. I myself met with some of t
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee They are the outline. Gérard, do you want to add anything?
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee Our findings are based on what we were able to learn about the decision-making process. Based on the information we were able to obtain, we concluded that the act had not been complied with. I'm not going to say what consultation should have been conducted but was not or debate w
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee There are two reasons for that. Air Canada has had certain problems integrating employees from other airlines that did not previously have the same obligations. There were agreements. As a result of union negotiations, positions were given to people who had spent their careers at
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee That's an incident that occurred before I arrived.
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee As regards Mr. Thibodeau's case, I thought Air Canada displayed unsympathetic conduct toward its legal obligations. I was pleased to see that the court's decision was to impose an obligation of result on Air Canada.
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee We've prepared a preliminary report. Now we're waiting for the institutions and complainants to react. Some complainants have already given us their reaction. We'll consider them all before issuing our final report.
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser
Official Languages committee As I told Mr. Chong and stated in my presentation, we speak 150 languages in Canada, but two of those are official languages: English and French. It is with those two languages that we maintain a national dialogue. I also pointed out that learning the other official language was
June 7th, 2007Committee meeting
Graham Fraser