Official Languages committee  Once again, these are staffers who filed incident reports and opened files. Yes, I believe it's a provincial agency, but I wouldn't swear to it.

Official Languages committee  Yes, I believe the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, the WSIB, is the Ontario agency.

Official Languages committee  I don't know whether there was any follow-up. I imagine those cases will be investigated in due course. We were talking about complaints from employees who unfortunately may not get the follow-up they want. I have nothing else to say on the matter. You should contact the Transla

Official Languages committee  Witnesses have always appeared at the last minute at the request of the various committees; that's for sure. However, we see that this definitely occurs more often now that we work remotely. If you remember the good old days when we were in the committee room, the clerk could di

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee.

Official Languages committee  I can't really speak to the other platforms. I'm not an expert on platforms. On Thursday, you will be receiving a witness who will speak to that. What I can say is that we are seeing issues abroad as well. There seems to be a trend in terms of injuries being sustained, but certa

Official Languages committee  You certainly have to do your studies at this time to work for the Government of Canada. The translation bureau only hires interpreters who have a master's degree and you.... I'm sorry, Mr. Dubourg. Do I have only one second or one minute left?

Official Languages committee  Okay. What we need is to invest so that we have more training opportunities to prepare the next generation of interpreters to do the work, so no, you don't have to go through the route of a master's, but if you want to work for the Parliament of Canada.... This is the highest in

Official Languages committee  The survey we conducted of Translation Bureau staffers concerned employees on the job. Those who weren't at work as a result of the pandemic because they didn't have childcare services for their children weren't surveyed. As for freelancers like me, once again, we answer the cal

Official Languages committee  Jim, would you like to answer that question?

Official Languages committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Dalton. What I can say to this is that there's a big difference between being online and being in the room with everyone, as I'm sure you've noticed. Everybody can't wait to get together again. It has made our work more difficult in that, first

Official Languages committee  As you know, it's not up to me to offer an opinion on that. All I can tell you is that we're not up to the task and that we have to be protected from prolonged exposure so we can continue serving you in English and French to the best of our abilities.

Official Languages committee  All I can tell you is that people must absolutely wear a headset and there must absolutely be a cable connection. Where possible, people must familiarize themselves with the way the platform is used so they know how to do things right.

Official Languages committee  It's quite unfortunate. As you'll understand, knowing that we're getting injured working four hours a day, the situation improve if we work five hours a day.

Official Languages committee  When we work in pairs, it's normally for a period of three hours. As you can understand, we're on the mic for 30-minute periods. Actually, we work for 20 minutes on Zoom because, for a number of reasons, it's exhausting. So we relieve each other every 20 minutes. The two-interpr