New funds for Translation Bureau largely aimed at existing efforts to tackle federal interpretation shortfall

Interpretation capacity issues already brewing pre-pandemic have constrained parliamentary work since the shift to hybrid work following the onset of COVID-19.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, right, pose with copies of the 2024 federal budget in the House of Commons foyer on April 16. The budget included more than $35-million for the Translation Bureau. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

May 20, 2024

This spring’s budget included more than $35-million in funding for the federal Translation Bureau with the stated aim of helping it boost interpretation capacity and establish a scholarship program, but there’s little new in the details for how it hopes to do so.

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