Official Languages Policy Review

• The project is aimed at:

  • reducing the number and enhancing the relevance of policy instruments and reports;

  • relating policies and reporting to priorities and results;

  • improving the accessibility of policy instruments and targeting them to appropriate audiences and

  • restructuring, simplifying, reducing the quantity and modernizing the policies.

• The existing policies are reorganized in order to come up with a policy suite that is integrated, easy to understand and based on values.

• The new policies reinforce monitoring and clearly establish the roles and responsibilities of departments and federal institutions.

• The review:

  • completed phase I which relates to the Policy on Language of Work and the Policy on Official Languages for Human Resources Management;

  • will focus, in its phase II, on the policies on services and communications with the public, in 2004-2005;

  • aims to put forth the Official Languages Act's principles and characteristics and integrates values, including respect and

  • includes a Web-based policy dissemination strategy to improve access.