Canada’s official languages are worth protecting, preserving

The feds must protect the quality of the Translation Bureau’s important services.

Liberal MP Denis Paradis is chair of the House Official Languages Committee, which is awaiting government response to a report it tabled last June on the federal Translation Bureau. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY NICOLE GAGNON

October 5, 2016

You get what you pay for. This simple truth lies at the heart of an emerging debate about Canada’s two official languages. At issue is the preservation of our English and French linguistic duality. Members of the Commons Committee on Official Languages are intimately familiar with the tension of...

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