Canadians for Language Fairness

Canadians for Language Fairness is an organization in Canada that campaigns against the current application and enforcement of the official bilingualism policy in various jurisdictions within the country.Canadians for Language Fairness state that the faulty application and enforcement of
official bilingualism policy by the Federal Government over the years has unfairly increased the French(first language) employees to 31% (countrywide) of all Public service employees.This percentage being over 50% in the Ottawa region (see ref). Canadians for Language Fairness maintain the Treasury Board (see ref) and Federal Bureaucrats have violated their own guidelines by not hiring English (first language) employees in proportion to their numbers in the general population. The organization had taken the City of Ottawa to court over the city's bilingualism policy which requires all upper echelon positions to be fully bilingual.Canadians for Language Fairness maintain that the City of Ottawa is following a similar path to the Federal Government that will over time increasingly discriminate against hiring unilingual English employees. Canadians for Language Fairness maintain that bilinguals are increasingly treated as a special and elite class to the detriment of both English and French unilinguals.

References

Part VIII : Responsibilities and duties of the TREASURY BOARD in relation to the Official languages of Canada

Dyane Adam, Commissioner of official languages, May 10 2006. Core Public Administration as of March 31, 2006. When French first speakers were 24% of the Canadian population.

ee also

*Bilingualism in Canada
*Bilingualism in Ottawa
*Spoken languages of Canada

External links

* [http://www.languagefairness.ca/ Canadians for Language Fairness website]
* [http://www.nikart.ca/writing/english.html/ Article about Canadians for Language Fairness website]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/19/language-fri.html CBC News: City of Ottawa sued over bilingualism bylaw]