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Official Languages committee That is an excellent question. I'm not sure whether Mr. Bloom is familiar with the history. I don't know the details.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I'd like to add one thing. This matter involves the Department of Justice, as Mr. Bloom said, but also the Department of Canadian Heritage. We most often interact with the Department of Justice, since it is responsible for the appointment of judges. That said, the challenge remai
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I cannot say with certainty.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee Great.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I'm not sure how familiar you are with the process. As a first step, the province identifies the needs. The federal government then has to respond and confirm the needs. For instance, Quebec says that it needs six more judges and then the federal government decides to appoint add
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee That's true, but there's also the issue of delays. If the trial level decision is not in the requester's language, it is possible that the person in question may receive the translation after the appeal period.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee The current process at the Shared Services Centre of Quebec (CSPQ) is problematic in terms of quality, the delay for the revision by a judge and the delivery of the judgment.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee Yes. The Quebec ombudsman has prepared a report on that. The Government of Quebec then agreed to compensate someone who had been prejudiced by delays in translation.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee In fact, the person had to pay extra fees to file the appeal because they had to do so before they received the translation of the judgment.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I can start by giving you the numbers on the funding that was granted, because I think I forgot to do so. In 2010-2011, the government provided $200,000; in 2011-2012, $200,000. Then there was a phasing-out of funding: $70,000 in 2012-2013, and $50,000 in 2013-2014. Earlier, I m
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I would say that the outcome is much more important than the process. We have recently applauded the fact that the government has finally heard the requests for bilingualism to be part of the criteria for the Supreme Court appointment process. There was some debate about what wa
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee If you don't mind, I will not tell you which Canadian provinces are doing the work properly and which ones are not. As I see it, it is basically done according to the demand. In Ontario, many judgments are rendered in French. It is much easier in Ontario to have a francophone jud
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee I'm sorry, but I don't know the answer to that question.
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee Let me start. In terms of the translation of the judgments, it's not that we refuse to translate the rulings depending on whether they are important or not. Instead, it is a right granted to citizens to request the translation of a ruling. For instance, in a case with an angloph
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin
Official Languages committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. President. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the committee and of the staff. I must thank the committee for the invitation to be part of your work today. At the outset, I thought about doing my speech in both languages and switching from one to t
November 22nd, 2016Committee meeting
Antoine Aylwin