Official Languages committee  Yes, we will make the necessary verifications and we will follow up.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Arseneault, I'm going to answer your question. I am going to read the letter before you. It refers to the need “to mitigate the negative impact”; that is how the letter is drafted in French. You have to look at the entire letter. Of course I cannot interpret the intention of

Official Languages committee  We tell the union that those routes must offer services in French because there is a demand for that service. It's not a negotiation, it is something we require.

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  We will check to see whether that is possible.

Official Languages committee  It is Jazz that...

Official Languages committee  In 2016, we increased our hours of language training by 22%.

Official Languages committee  To answer your question, I want to describe the context in which that letter was sent to the Jazz employees. Pursuant to the regulations, high-demand routes were reviewed. In the course of that exercise carried out in 2015, we noticed that certain routes no longer met the 5% leve

Official Languages committee  In November 2016, the government announced a moratorium. It asked that those routes be maintained. And so, when the evaluations were published, Jazz reviewed its assignment system, and when the government stated that the company could not continue in the same way, Jazz informed t

Official Languages committee  Allow me to add that the allocation system requires that flight attendants must "bid"; I can only think of the English word.

Official Languages committee  I'm looking for another word in French.

Official Languages committee  Yes, thank you. Flight attendants must ask for blocks of hours, and the system assigns them to them on the basis of seniority. However, the system also includes criteria related to bilingualism requirements. For example, bilingual attendants will have their request processed on

Official Languages committee  The requirements actually depend on the size of the aircraft, the flight, and so on. In the case of Montreal, there are clearly more flights. We implemented this allocation system for the specific purpose of meeting our legal obligations, and this is done with the agreement of t

Official Languages committee  I will talk about two items: first, the report tabled by the Commissioner about the situation in the airports, which specifically affects CATSA; second, the legislative measures that have been proposed in the past. As for the report tabled this week, we will not comment on the s

Official Languages committee  With regard to our unions, some of their members will appear following our presentation. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that clients and passengers benefit from a service in both official languages. We have developed a number of tools, and, together with the unions, we are worki