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What protections are available to employees who are unjustly dismissed in federally regulated sectors?
Progress and ongoing work at IRCC after department-wide Anti-Racism survey in November 2020 revealed that perceptions of the existence and nature of racism in the department varied significantly based on respondents’ racial and ethnic background, and that significant proportions of racialized employees consider racism to be a problem within the Department.
What are the details of the Canada-Alberta broadband partnership announced March 9, 2022?
What are the details of the Canada-Prince Edward Island broadband partnership announced on June 2, 2022?
What is the Government of Canada doing to support access to high-speed Internet infrastructure in the North?
The Alberta government released an actuarial report by LifeWorks on a potential Alberta pension plan that said Alberta could provide similar benefits to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) with significant lower contribution rates (5.91% instead of 9.9% for the base plan) given demographics and a large asset transfer from the CPP ($334 billion or roughly 60% of the CPP fund).
On June 20, 2023, Bill C-13 - An Act to amend the Official Languages Act, to enact the Use of French in Federally Regulated Private Businesses Act and to make related amendments to other Acts received Royal Assent.
Close collaboration is exercised to ensure governance and whole-of-government coordination of the implementation of the Official Languages Act (the Act) between Canadian Heritage and Treasury Board (TB). The Act for the Substantive Equality of Canada’s Official Languages, which received royal accent on June 20, 2023, provides for significant adjustments that include, among other things, to entrust the role of government-wide coordination of the Act and its good governance to the President of TB, while the Minister of Canadian Heritage (or the designated Minister responsible for Official Languages) leads the development and implementation of a government-wide official languages strategy, in consultation with the TB President.
On June 20, 2023, Bill C-13 - An Act to amend the Official Languages Act, to enact the Use of French in Federally Regulated Private Businesses Act and to make related amendments to other Acts received Royal Assent. The modernized Act recognizes the diversity of provincial and territorial linguistic regimes that contribute to progress toward equality of status and use of English and French, including Quebec's Charter of the French Language.
Statistics Canada released, in August 2022, data on official languages from the 2021 Census of Canada.