cybercoma Posted November 6, 2011 Report Posted November 6, 2011 (edited) I agree that we shouldn't be limiting our options, but I also think it's important for people in the federal government to be bilingual. A quarter of this country is francophone. That's not an insignificant amount. Nonetheless, I agree that it shouldn't be a pre-requisite, but that also means I think they should hire someone that only speaks French, but is willing to learn English as well. The problem is what do you do in the mean time? If they don't understand everyone else in their office, how do you get around that? Do you spend a crapload of money on interpreters everywhere and funding linguistic programs to teach these people their non-mothertongue? It might be even more costly to go about it this way, so perhaps the bilingual pre-requisite is necessary. I'm really not sure, but I hate that it limits the candidates to somewhere in the neighbourhood of 10% of the population and primarily Quebecois. Edited November 6, 2011 by cybercoma Quote
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