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(CCNMatthews - April 12, 2005) - The Commissioner of Official Languages, Dr. Dyane Adam, published today the second in a series of studies on language of work in Federal institutions, entitled Making it Real: Promoting Respectful Co-existence of the Two Official Languages at Work. The study reveals that equality of the official languages at work has not yet been achieved for either the English-speaking or French-speaking minorities. There are, however, some possible common solutions that put particular emphasis on the key role of managers.
In this study, the Commissioner looked at the language of work in bilingual regions of Quebec where Anglophones-who are the majority nationally-constitute the official language minority community. She also examined the work environments at the head offices of eight Crown corporations, since Crown corporations as a whole constitute over one third of the organizations subject to the Official Languages Act.