Watchdog urges feds to champion language rights when encouraging AI in public service

Official Languages Commissioner Kelly Burke’s inaugural annual report also recommended mandatory language training for managers by March 2028.

Official Languages Commissioner Kelly Burke tabled her first annual report in the House of Commons on Oct. 8, mainly covering the time where her predecessor Raymond Théberge helmed the language watchdog office.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

October 8, 2026

Canada’s languages watchdog is calling on the Treasury Board Secretariat to take official languages into account in its rules and strategies around artificial intelligence in the public service in order to eliminate instances of language-based bias.

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