- More than 1 Billion dollars made thanks to college football.

- Sportmans are often paid deppending on their skills and the amount that their team will win thanks to them.

- They are barely all adults, the age gap goes from 18 to 23 yo wich mean that they can legally get paid.

- They could pay the college student the same way they pay pro players.

USA Today

In the name of language rights, the federal government is trampling on the career prospects of thousands of public service employees. Why? Because they have the misfortune of not speaking advanced French.

Discriminatory though it may be, that’s the new direction at the Treasury Board of Canada, which will be requiring all new supervisors in bilingual regions (including Ottawa, where much of the public service is based) to speak official languages at a “superior” level in June 2025. Currently, supervisors in bilingual zones must speak their second official language at an “intermediate” level.

Effectively, it’s a lockdown on the career advancement of anglophones.

But that’s how it goes in Canada, where the Official Languages Act has been weaponized by the current federal government. Largely used as a shield in the past, largely to protect the country’s French-speaking language minority, the law is being wielded as a sword, justifying the retraction of opportunities from people who comprise the majority of the population.

It’s not fair, and that’s the point — like so many other “equity” measures taken by the Liberals.

For context, English speakers make up 76 per cent of the Canadian population, according to Statistics Canada. They’re also largely unilingual: outside Quebec, just over seven per cent of this group also speaks French. French speakers inside Quebec, in contrast, are roughly 40 per cent bilingual. The Treasury Board’s new rules therefore take a lot more opportunities away from English speakers around the country than they do French speakers.

Which, for this government, makes this kind of language favouritism an entirely legitimate, moral move. Monolingual Anglophones make up the majority of the population and receive their language from the historic hegemon of Canada: Britain. They’re privileged — even if they never grew up with generous exposure to French, even if they’re conducting themselves in an official language as they’re perfectly entitled to do under the Charter. Any rule that deprives this group from entering and ascending the state bureaucracy is a feature, not a bug; it’s systemic discrimination in the literal sense.

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• Ensure the equality of English and French in all institutions of the Government and Parliament of Canada;

• Support the development of official language minority communities;

• Foster the full recognition and use of both official languages in Canadian society; and

• Clarify the powers and obligations of federal institutions with respect to official languages.

More specifically, the Act guarantees:

• The equality of English and French in parliamentary proceedings and in the enactment of laws and other legislative documents;

• The right of every Canadian to be heard and understood by a judge in the official language of their choice before federal courts;

• The right of every Canadian to communicate with and receive services from every federal institution in the official language of their choice;

• The right to work in the federal public service in the official language of one’s choice in certain regions; and

• That the Government is committed to ensuring that Anglophones and Francophones have equal opportunities to pursue careers in federal institutions, and that the composition of the federal public service reflects the linguistic make-up of the Canadian population.

Finally, Part VII of the Act describes the Government’s commitment to:

1. support the development and enhance the vitality of official language minority communities; and

2. foster the full recognition and use of both English and French in Canadian society.

More specifically, the Act establishes:

• The obligation of every federal institution to take positive measures to implement this commitment;

• That, as part of this commitment, the Minister of Canadian Heritage takes measures to, among other things:

  • Directly support the development and vitality of linguistic communities;

  • Encourage and assist the provinces and territories to foster community development by offering provincial and municipal services in both languages;

  • Help the provinces and territories meet their constitutional obligation to provide official language minority communities with an education system in their language;

  • Encourage the public to better accept and appreciate English and French; and

  • Encourage and support the learning of English and French as a second language, including encouraging and assisting provinces and territories to offer school programs to this effect.

  • www.canada.ca

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