Bilingual Workforce and New Brunswick

New Brunswick: "What surprised me most is when those firms come to New Brunswick because of our bilingual workforce, every bilingual job they create, they create two unilingual jobs," said Official Languages Commissioner Katherine d'Entremont, who released the report on Wednesday . , according to CBC. Although some people have criticized official bilingualism as being too expensive for a small province during an economic slump, the report Two languages: It good for business says people need to see what bilingualism has done, and can do, for economic growth. Bilingualism in New Brunswick benefits unilingual residents, according to a new report commissioned by the province commissioner of official languages. "That floored me, quite frankly," she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.