Donald Arseneault

Donald Arseneault: The government will, however, continue to offer employees the opportunity for language training, said Arseneault. "I think it important, we see the benefits of it, but we want to work with our civil servants," he said. "We don't have to have 100 per cent of our civil servants, including our senior civil servants, being fully bilingual." In her 2014-15 annual report, Katherine d'Entremont calls for bilingualism to be a requirement for all senior public service positions in the province, saying it should be imperative for the top 328 positions in the public service to be filled by bilingual people. "These leaders perform duties requiring constant interaction with members of the two linguistic communities," d'Entremont states in her report, according to CBC. Having bilingual leaders also enables people to work in their language of their choice, she stated. "Senior public servants superviseanglophone and francophone employees. Donald Arseneault, the minister responsible for official languages, says senior civil servants take a team approach, making bilingualism for all positions unnecessary. "I will not put, and our government will not put, a policy in place for that to happen," Donald Arseneault said in response to the commissioner report, released on Thursday. Therefore, they have to be able to communicate with them in their language." Senior public servants supervise anglophone and francophone employees. That amounts to 328 positions in the so-called part 1 of the public service, or about three per cent of the 9,204 people employed in that category of public service employees. Therefore, they have to be able to communicate with them in their language.'- Katherine d'Entremont, commissioner of official languages D'Entremont considers deputy ministers, assistant deputy ministers and employees in pay bands eight to 12 to be senior public servants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.