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Official Languages committee Jazz must offer services in both official languages, in the same manner as, and as if it were, Air Canada.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee Jazz employees have their union and Air Canada employees have another.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee I believe it's Unifor.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee It usually works very well with employees and unions when the message is positive.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee However, we are the ones who develop training tools and give courses to Jazz employees. In that way, we help Jazz in implementing the delivery of bilingual services because passengers who travel with Jazz also have a relationship with Air Canada. It’s a real team effort.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee That is a good question. I find sometimes it's hard to explain. When bilingualism is mentioned in the presentation, it is referring to French and English. Many of our employees are bilingual, but the languages they speak are English and Cantonese.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee It could also involve English and Mandarin. The fact remains that, in general, most of the staff speak English.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee It represents francophones who speak English or anglophones who speak French, who know the language.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee This is part of our daily lives.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee I'm sorry about that.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee It's on page 17.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee The message we want to deliver is that the situation is improving.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee Yes. It would be wrong to tell you that it is easy to hire bilingual people in some parts of the country.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee The fact remains that efforts have been made. For example, there were recently six airport employee positions to be filled at St. John's, Newfoundland. We determined we had to hire six bilingual people. Finding six unilingual employees for the airport in St. John's would have tak
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault
Official Languages committee I would like to add an anecdote. When we had to fill the post of director of government relations for the western region, we made an extra effort to find a bilingual candidate. That is how Mr. Corbeil joined us last October. His French is not bad.
March 23rd, 2017Committee meeting
David Rheault