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Official Languages committee I have all the information and I could send it to you.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee It's the Treasury Board.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee I'm trying to do the addition.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee Yes, I'll definitely be pleased to do that. This is a matter of determining the bilingual regions relative to unilingual regions, and the directives are quite clear. The designated bilingual regions are bilingual based mainly on employee rights. Ultimately, the bilingual or non-bilingual designation is based on the percentage of citizens who are anglophones or francophones.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee The person who answers the telephone will ensure that we provide that person with service in French. For client service purposes, we offer bilingual service. For employee rights and work on a day-to-day basis in the office itself, it's designated unilingual. It's somewhat the best effort, but it's also the act that—
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee Yes, absolutely. It could be improved.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee We have approximately 10,500.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee Yes, I can absolutely give you that information based on the regions.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee That depends on the position. If the position is designated unilingual English because the person mainly has to work with anglophones, that person must then be able to work in English.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee There are very strict rules about hiring someone who is unable to work in the language necessary to do the work. It's the same in Quebec. If an anglophone applied for a position, would we give it to that person? You have to conduct the analysis on a case-by-case basis.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee That's part of the accountability plan for the departments concerning management, and it's available.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee I'd like to say that Ms. Huard isn't a champion in this area, but she is a champion—
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee No, I said that Serge Thériault, who is regional general director for the Gulf Region, is the other co-champion, with Mr. Bloom. Ms. Huard is responsible for certain parts of the act because she is the assistant deputy minister responsible for human resources.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee Yes, that's correct.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau
Official Languages committee Yes, as for all the other files that are important for us, the minister's clerk, as I said earlier, expects us not only to make a real effort, even in our letters of offer, but also to produce very clear results.
March 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Claire Dansereau