Official Languages committee  You weren't alive in 1969.

Official Languages committee  It's not highly developed in language rights. To date, we've tried instead to establish the existence of a right and to apply for declaratory orders from the courts. We haven't really evolved on damages for violations of language rights. However, there are damages. You need only

Official Languages committee  It's a cause I've been advocating since I was about 15 years old. So it's been 48 years.

Official Languages committee  I'd prefer an administrative tribunal over coercive powers granted to the Commissioner of Official Languages, who has a special relationship that he must maintain with the federal institutions. It would be difficult, in a way, to grant the commissioner the power to impose penalti

Official Languages committee  I did so for 10 years.

Official Languages committee  It worked very well on the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, which could make an order when a department or federal institution was found guilty of violating the Canadian Human Rights Act. It could be an enforceable order requiring the institution to make a particular change or es

Official Languages committee  There's a limit. If my memory serves me, for example, the limit for punitive and non-monetary damages is $20,000 in a single case. However, the amount of damages could be quite substantial in the case of monetary losses suffered by an individual. The most important thing is not

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. First of all, I want to thank the members of the committee for inviting me to speak today on the important plan to amend the Official Languages Act of Canada. When you live outside the city of Ottawa and the province of Ontario, and especially wh