Official Languages committee  Staff is entitled to work until the age of 65.

Official Languages committee  Our retirement plan is designed in the following way: a person who is 55 and has accumulated 85 points, which is a combination of age and years of service, may choose to take full retirement or continue to work.

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  There are fewer now.

Official Languages committee  Mr. Vincent, to be realistic, I'm 58 years old, I started working in 1972, I could keep working another seven years. That is not what I will be doing.

Official Languages committee  That is the reality you have to understand. Those who started working at the age of 20 or 21 in 1972 like myself are still working for us and still have a ways to go. If I were to stay until the age of 65, I would be there until 2015—I haven't made the calculation.

Official Languages committee  As was said, obviously, with time, things improve. However, people are still working and we treat them as we do other employees. We've given them the opportunity to learn the second official language. However, it is not an obligation.

Official Languages committee  Not on the same day, because the incident took place on August 16 in the evening.

Official Languages committee  The next day and the following days, as soon as things became clear, that the complaint and feedback was received, we issued both an internal and an external memo. Afterwards, we sent out more specific information to staff to remind them of their obligations with respect to offic

Official Languages committee  An apology has to do with the choice of official language people mark down. For instance, when members of our VIA Preference program register, they may indicate English instead of French. If so, correspondence with them is in that language. The same type of thing happened to me

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  You are right to raise the point. I thought you were asking the question in terms of policy. That was an error in the system: the letter went out in English only and it was sent out as such.

Official Languages committee  I don't know. I would imagine that if they didn't have the right to speak English... I really don't know. I am not really familiar with the background, with the details of this legislation. I would have to review it and we would have to make a more specific assessment. I truly ca

Official Languages committee  Yes. The court recognized that the need to provide service in both official languages in a situation where safety is at stake was more important than the argument presented by the employees that they would be able to improve their personal salaries. That was an extremely importan

Official Languages committee  Every train team includes a minimum of bilingual positions. For example, there is one position, the service manager position, which is on board the corridor trains. The other positions are assigned on the basis of seniority. However, because there is a great deal of staff turnove